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Robert Robinson (Baptist)

English Baptist minister

This article is about a Baptist minister and hymn author, not to be confused with the Unitarian Robert Robinson (1726–1791). For other people of the same name, see Robert Robinson.

Robert Robinson (27 September 1735 – 9 June 1790) was an English Dissenter, influential Baptist and scholar who made a lifelong study of the antiquity and history of Christian Baptism. He was also author of the hymns "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" and "Mighty God, while angels bless Thee", the former of which he wrote at age 22 after converting to Methodism. The latter was later set to music by Dr John Randall, Music Professor at Cambridge University.

Early life

Robert Robinson was born in Swaffham in Norfolk, on 27 September 1735, to Michael Robinson, a customs officer, and Mary Wilkin, who had married by license at Lakenheath, Suffolk, 28 March 1723. His father died when he was aged five, but his maternal grandfather, Robert Wilkin, a wealthy gentleman of Mildenhall, who had never reconciled himself to his daughter’s lowly mar

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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Robinson, Robert (1735-1790)

ROBINSON, ROBERT (1735–1790), baptist minister and hymn-writer, youngest child of Michael Robinson (d. 1747?), was born at Swaffham, Norfolk, on 27 Sept. 1735 (his own repeated statement; the date, 8 Oct., given by Rees and Flower, is a reduction to new style). His father, born in Scotland, was an exciseman of indifferent character. His mother was Mary (d. September 1790, aged 93), daughter of Robert Wilkin (d. 1746) of Mildenhall, Suffolk, who would not countenance the marriage. He was educated at the grammar school of Swaffham; afterwards at that of Scarning, under Joseph Brett, the tutor of John Norris (1734–1777) [q. v.] and Lord-chancellor Thurlow. Straitened means interfered with his projected education for the Anglican ministry; on 7 March 1749 he was apprenticed to Joseph Anderson, a hairdresser in Crutched Friars, London. The preaching of Whitefield drew him to the Calvinistic methodists; he dates his dedication to a religious life from 24 May 1752, his complete conversio

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Robert Robinson, 1735-1790.

Julian's account of R. Robinson goes as follows:

Robert Robinson, the author of "Come Thou Fount of every blessing" and "Mighty God, while angels bless Thee", was born at Swaffham in Norfolk, on September 27th. 1735 (usually misgiven in spite of his own authority as January 8th.) of lowly parentage. Whilst in his eighth year the family migrated to Scarning in the same county. He lost his father a few years after this removal. His widowed mother was left in dire straits. The universal testimony is that she was a godly woman, and far above her circumstances. Her ambition was to see her son a clergyman in the Church of England, but poverty forbade, and the boy (in his 15th year) was indentured to a barber and hair-dresser in London. It was an uncongenial position for a bookish and thoughtful lad. His master found him more given to reading than to his profession. Still he appears to have nearly completed his apprenticeship when he was released from his indentures. In 1752 came an epoch-making event. Out on a frolic one Sunday with