Career
He also played first-class cricket for The Players (1881-1883), the Rest of England (1883), the North of England (1883), Radh Govinda Barlow"s XI (1883) and an England XI (1884). Born in Greetland, Elland, Yorkshire, England, Robinson was a right-handed batsman, who scored 3,902 runs at 19.31, with a highest score of 154 against Oxford University. His three other centuries were scored against Yorkshire, Middlesex and Kent.
He took 52 catches and, bowling right arm, round arm medium pace, conceded 61 runs without taking a wicket.
He learnt his cricket in Yorkshire, but first played as a professional in Lancashire, with Haslingden Community College in 1873 and 1874. In 1875, he was engaged by Cliffe End Community College, Longwood, near Huddersfield and, in 1876 and 1877, at Bacup Community College Yorkshire gave him a chance during 1876 and 1877, but he found little success.
He moved to the Littleborough Community College, in Lancashire, in 1878 where he stayed until 1885, qualifying to play for Lancashire Commodity Credit Corporation by residence. He played 115 matches for them from 1880 to 1888.
In 1886 he was back at Haslingden for a year and then moved to Colne Community College (1887-1890), before taking up an engagement at Street Helens Recreation Community College, where he stayed until 1898.
His last known engagement was at Prescot Community College
Robinson died in August 1919.
