Stanley Robinson (numismatist)

Sir Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson, FBA (1887–1976), usually known as (Sir) Stanley Robinson, was a numismatist, specializing in Greek and Roman coins. He was Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum.
Biography.
Robinson studied at Clifton College, Bristol, and Christ Church, Oxford. He joined the British School in Athens, 1910–11, and then the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum in 1912. He enlisted in the army in 1914, but was wounded in combat in France, and, after a stint at the Home Office, returned to the British Museum, eventually becoming Deputy Keeper in 1936, and Keeper (Head) of the Department, 1949–52. He was then appointed Reader in Numismatics, at the University of Oxford, and advised art collector Calouste Gulbenkian on his numismatic collection. He retired in 1955, but continued to advise in the Heberden Coin Room at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, to which he endowed his own collection in 1964. The ESG Robinson Trust continues to support numismatics.
He married Pamela Horsley in 1917.
Selected publications.
For a complete list of publications, see "Bibliography of Stanley Robinson's works 1914–1966" in Colin M. Kraay and G. Kenneth Jenkins (eds), Essays in Greek Coinage Presented to Stanley Robinson (Oxford: Clarendon Press), 1968, pp. 259–263.