Anthony John Robinson

Anthony John Backhouse Robinson was a field hockey player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics and 1956 Summer Olympics.

Biography

Robinson was educated at Marlborough School and came from a hockey family, with his two uncles Lawrence Robinson and John Yate Robinson both playing hockey.
Robinson joined the Royal Navy and in 1947 gained his first county hockey cap for Leicestershire before switching to Worcestershire and then Somerset. He played club hockey for Worcester Hockey Club and then West Of England Wanderers.
He made his England debut against Wales at Bournemouth in 1950. He subsequently represented Great Britain in the field hockey tournament at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki and won the bronze medal.
In 1954 he captained Great Britain in an international tournament in Belgium and two years later he represented the Great Britain team again in the field hockey tournament at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. He was vice-captain of a England team that toured South Africa and Kenya in 1958.
Later he taught at Millfield school.