William Robins (other)
William Robins may refer to: *William Robins (priest) (1868–1949), Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Bedford *William Robins (cricketer) (1907–1990), English cricketer and British Army officer *William Robert Robins (1886–1959), English trade unionist and politician See also *William Robbins (other) William Robbins may refer to: *William Robbins (athlete) (1885–1962), American athlete competing at the 1908 Summer Olympics *William D. Robbins (1874–1952), mayor of Toronto in the 1930s * William H. Robbins (1926–2009), American NASA engine ...

William Robins (priest)
William Aubrey Robins (23 September 1868 – 22 November 1949) was Archdeacon of Bedford from 1935 to 1945. Robins was educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Oxford. He began his ecclesiastical career as a curate at St Mary Redcliffe after which he was a Church Mission Society missionary in British Columbia. He held incumbencies at St Martin's, Bristol and St John the Baptist, Cirencester before his years as an archdeacon An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that o .... Crockford's- 1948 References People educated at Marlborough College Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford Archdeacons of Bedford 1868 births 1949 deaths {{Canterbury-archdeacon-stub ...
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William Robins (cricketer)
William Vernon Harry Robins DSO (29 May 1907 – 26 June 1990) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. He was the brother of the Test cricketer Walter Robins. Early life and early cricket Born at Stafford in May 1907, Robins was educated at University College School, where he played in the cricket eleven. After leaving school he attended the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, graduating in September 1927, from where he was posted to the King's Own Regiment with the rank of second lieutenant. He was promoted to lieutenant in the same regiment on 1 September 1930. During a ceremony at Edinburgh Castle on 1 August 1931, Robins carried one of the colours of Barrell's Regiment, an ancestor regiment of the King's Own; these colours had been carried by the regiment at the Battle of Culloden and the ceremony united them with the standard of Clan Stewart of Appin – who had fought on the Jacobite side. The colours remain in the collection of the National Mus ...
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William Robert Robins
William Robert Robins OBE (1886 – 28 September 1959) was a British trade unionist and politician. Born at Osmaston, Derby, Robins was the son of John Robins, a railway wagon builder originally from Yeovil who moved his family to Swindon about 1893. He was brought up as a Primitive Methodist. He found work as a railway clerk. In 1908, he joined the Railway Clerks' Association (RCA). Three years later, the RCA had enough members in the town to form a branch, and he became its first organising secretary, serving until 1919. From 1918 until 1921, he also served as the secretary of Swindon Trades Council, and in 1919, he was elected as a Labour Party member of the town council. From 1918 until 1925, he was the chairman of the RCA's Western Divisional Council, then from 1925 until 1931 he served on the union's executive committee. Robins stood in Cirencester and Tewkesbury at the 1922 and 1923 United Kingdom general elections, with the sponsorship of his union. On each occasion, ...
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