Thomas Robins

Thomas Robins (1732-1810) studied under Philip Doddridge at Northampton and Caleb Ashworth at Daventry, 1750-55; he subsequently served as minister to the Independent congregation at West Bromwich. As Robert Hall once commented, Robins was ‘a man remarkable for delicacy of taste and elegance of diction’. In 1775 Robins replaced the deceased Ashworth as Principal of the Academy at Daventry, serving during the brief time Russell Scott attended. In 1781 Robins was forced to resign due to a throat problem. See H. McLachlan, English Education under the Test Acts (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1931), 156-60; Robert Hall, Memoir of the Rev. Thomas Toller, in The Works of Robert Hall, ed. Olinthus Gregory, 6 vols (2nd ed., London, 1833), vol. 4, p. 306.