Talk:Walter Robins

Article expanded – but there's still missing info
I've just completed a pretty extensive expansion of this article, but there is still quite a lot of information missing, mainly to do with Robins's personal life. There's plenty of stuff online and elsewhere that covers his cricketing career, and I've used this to the full, but almost nothing that provides us with basic facts about his life outside cricket. Things that I would like to know about include:
 * What was his father's profession?
 * What was his mother's name?
 * Where did the family live when they came down south from Stafford? Maybe it was somewhere near East Moseley, the club Robins is said to have played for – but that's in Surrey rather than Middlesex
 * What did Robins study while at Cambridge?
 * When did Robins marry, and who to? Was it Kathleen Knight, as suggested by this picture?
 * 3, Richard Robins, Unity Maclean and Robert Victor Charles Robins
 * Any further information on the insurance business that apparently provided Robins with a livelihood. It must have done pretty well, since he sent his sons to Eton.
 * Any further information on his wartime RAF career.

Some of this might be forthcoming from the fairly recent semi-biography, Walter Robins: Achievements, Affections and Affronts, by Brian Rendell (ACS, 2013), but in his review, Martin Chandler bemoans the lack of personal detail in the book, so I'm not too hopeful. I've not seen the book, and at this stage I don't want to splash out the dosh, but maybe someone will remember me at Christmas. Meanwhile, if anyone does have access to it, they may be able to add a little more to the article. Brianboulton (talk) 18:56, 24 August 2019 (UTC)Mar Mars 21 (talk) 08:10, 11 June 2020 (UTC)


 * I have added to his educational, sporting, business and RAF career. Not worth putting in article, but I see his family lived at 22 Cambridge Street SW1 when he joined his school in 1921. And also that the insurance broking firm for whom he worked and became chairman was taken over in 2000 by Towergate. GooglerW (talk) 16:06, 11 June 2020 (UTC)