Author: Robbins, George
Biography:
ROBBINS, George (1804-1866: Simms)
Born in Warwick in 1804, the poet was baptized on 24 Jan. 1805 at St Philip, Birmingham, the son of James Robbins and his wife, Amy. As early as 1841 he was landlord and licensed victualer of the Woolpack Inn, Snow Hill, Wolverhampton. By 1851, he was a japanware designer for Walton and Company, Old Hall, Wolverhampton. His wife, Ann, was born in 1809 at Llanbister, Radnorshire, Wales. They had least six children, four girls and two boys. Their eldest was born in 1833 at Penn, Staffordshire, near Wolverhampton. The poet died 20 June 1866 and was buried at Witton Lane Cemetery, Birmingham. Simms attributed to Robbins three unadvertised books: The Slaves; a Tragic Interlude (1832); The Cream of the Party (1835); and The Canine Colony, a Political Satire (n.d.). The Slaves is referenced in a 2022 volume, Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An Anthology, edited by M. L. Daut. Only The Slaves appears in library catalogues. (ancestry.com 24 Feb. 2024; Bibliotheca Staffordiensis, 377) JC