Henry Robins

Henry Charles Robins was the Dean of Salisbury in the Church of England from 1943 until his retirement in 1953.
Born in Beccles on 2 February 1882 and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, he was ordained into the priesthood in 1908. His first post was as a Curate at St John’s, Gosport after which he was an Assistant Chaplain in Khartoum then Vicar of Fleet. From 1922 to 1943 he held incumbencies at Chafford, Barking and Portsmouth before his elevation to the Deanery. An Honorary Chaplain to the King, he died on 31 July 1960; and his wife Dorothy 9 years later.