A liberal
Protestant in the all-Ireland tradition, Robb was educated at
Rockport School,
Holywood, County Down, and at
Merchiston Castle School,
Edinburgh. He then trained in medicine at
Queen's University, Belfast and later specialised in surgery. In the early 1980s he founded the
New Ireland Group, which sought to promote a new vision of Ireland which would radically differ both from the Unionist viewpoint and from the
Catholic and Gaelic vision. This was then perceived to be on offer as an alternative to Unionism. In 1982, he was
nominated by the Taoiseach Charles Haughey to be a member of the
16th Seanad. He was nominated to the
17th Seanad by the
Fine Gael Taoiseach
Garret FitzGerald, and by Haughey to the
18th Seanad. However, after the
1989 general election he was not nominated to the
19th Seanad. He died on 13 February 2018. ==References==