# Benjamin Robinson

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| name   = Benjamin Robinson
| image     = Findern Derbyshire Church.jpg
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| caption  = His first church in [Findern](/source/Findern) (today)
| birth_date  = 1666<ref name=dnb>{{DNB Cite|wstitle=Robinson, Benjamin}}</ref>
| birth_place = [Derby](/source/Derby), Derbyshire
| death_date  = 1724<ref name=dnb/>
| death_place = 
| education      = [Sheriff Hales](/source/Sheriff_Hales), Shropshire
| occupation     = [Presbyterian](/source/Presbyterian) minister
| spouse         = Anne
| parents        = 
| children       = several
}}
'''Benjamin Robinson''' (1666–1724) was an English [Presbyterian](/source/Presbyterian) church minister who was a pupil of Samuel Ogden (1626–1697). He came to be a respected theologian and had his views published. He started a school in [Findern](/source/Findern) in south [Derbyshire](/source/Derbyshire).<ref name=dnb/>

==Life==
Benjamin Robinson was born at [Derby](/source/Derby) in 1666 and educated for the ministry by John Woodhouse<ref name=dis>[https://books.google.com/books?id=P1kQAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22benjamin+robinson%22+findern&pg=PA65 ''History of Dissenters, from the Revolution in 1688, to the Year 1808''] p.65 by [David Bogue](/source/David_Bogue), [James Bennett](/source/James_Bennett_(minister)), 1809</ref> at [Sheriff Hales](/source/Sheriff_Hales), Shropshire. He began life as chaplain and tutor in the family of Sir [John Gell](/source/Sir_John_Gell%2C_1st_Baronet) at [Hopton](/source/Hopton%2C_Derbyshire), Derbyshire. He was subsequently chaplain at [Normanton](/source/Normanton%2C_Derbyshire) to Samuel Saunders, upon whose death he married and settled as Presbyterian minister of [Findern](/source/Findern), Derbyshire, being ordained on 10 October 1688.<ref name=dnb/>

In 1693 he opened a school at Findern, and for so doing was cited into the bishop's court.<ref name=dis/> Knowing [William Lloyd](/source/William_Lloyd_(bishop_of_Worcester)), then bishop of [Coventry](/source/Coventry) and [Lichfield](/source/Lichfield), he went to remonstrate with him. Lloyd stayed the prosecution, and discussed nonconformity with Robinson till two o'clock in the morning; they afterwards corresponded. [John Howe](/source/John_Howe_(Puritan)) recommended him to a congregation at [Hungerford](/source/Hungerford),<ref name=dis/> Berkshire, to which he removed from Findern in 1693. Here also, in 1696, he set up a school which developed into an academy for training ministers; students were sent to him by the Presbyterian fund.<ref name=dnb/> It was his aim to inspire them with proper sentiments and dispositions to allure them to habits of study.<ref name=dis/>

[Gilbert Burnet](/source/Gilbert_Burnet), [Bishop of Salisbury](/source/Bishop_of_Salisbury), being at Hungerford on a visitation, sent for Robinson, who defended his course and gained Burnet's friendship. Subsequently he and [Edmund Calamy](/source/Edmund_Calamy_(historian)) had several interviews with Burnet in 1702, when nonconformist matters were before parliament.<ref name=dnb/> It was said "he could do as much in an hour as another man could in a day".<ref name=dis/>

In 1700 he succeeded Woodhouse, his former tutor, as Presbyterian minister at Little St. Helen's, [Bishopsgate Street](/source/Bishopsgate_Street) in the City of London.<ref>[http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/17.htm Churches at History.ac.uk] accessed 23 October 2007</ref> Here he enjoyed great popularity as a preacher, having much natural eloquence, and a gift of rapid composition with a strong pen. In 1705 he succeeded [George Hamond](/source/George_Hamond) as one of the [Salters' Hall](/source/Salters'_Hall) lecturers, and made this his first business when declining health compelled him to limit his work.

He died on 30 April 1724, and was buried in [Bunhill Fields](/source/Bunhill_Fields). He left a widow, Anne, and several children.<ref name=dnb/>

==Major works==
# ''A Plea for ... Mr. Baxter in answer to Mr. Lobb,'' &c., 1697, 8vo defends Baxter's view of the Atonement).
# ''A Review of the Case of Liturgies,'' &c., 1710, 8vo.
# ''A Letter ... in defence of the Review,'' &c., 1710, 8vo (both in reply to Thomas Bennet, D.D.
# ' The Question stated, and the Scripture Evidence of the Trinity proposed,' 1719, 4to, being the second part of ' The Doctrine of the Ever Blessed Trinity stated and defended ... by four subscribing ministers.'

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