| Birth Date: | 29 August 1927 |
| Birth Place: | Horncastle, Lincolnshire, UK |
| Death Place: | Grimsby, North Lincolnshire, UK |
| Occupation: | Journalist Author |
David Norman Robinson (29 August 1927 - 25 July 2017) was a British journalist, author, and teacher.[1] [2] [3]
Robinson was born in Croft Street, Horncastle, and attended Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School. He graduated from the University of Nottingham with a degree in Geography and, subsequently, a MSc in which he wrote a thesis on the coastal evolution of north-east Lincolnshire.
He taught in schools in Immingham and Grimsby before becoming resident tutor of the University of Nottingham for North Lincolnshire. He edited the 'Lincolnshire Poacher' magazine in the 1950s, 'Lincolnshire Life' until 1989, and served on the editorial team for the 'Natural World' magazine.[4]
Robinson had variously served on the committees of many learned or charitable societies, including as: Honorary secretary of the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, the President of Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union, President of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, President of the Louth Naturalists', Antiquarian, and Literary Society, President of Louth Civic Trust (of which he was a founder in 1967), Life President of the Sir Joseph Banks Society, and Chairman of the Governors of Horncastle College. He was awarded an OBE in the 1997 Birthday Honours for services to journalism and the community of Lincolnshire.[5] In 2007 a collection of papers on historical and geographical themes, titled All Things Lincolnshire: An Anthology in Honour of David Robinson, OBE was dedicated to David.[6]
He is buried with his wife in Louth Cemetery.