Henry Wheeler Robinson, known universally as H. Wheeler Robinson, was born on 7 February 1872 at Northampton, United Kingdom and died on 12 May 1945 in Oxford, United Kingdom.
H. Wheeler Robinson was educated at Regent's Park Baptist College, then still in London, the University of Edinburgh, Mansfield College, Oxford, and the Universities of Marburg and Strasbourg.
He began his ministry at Pitlochry and then at St Michael's, Coventry.
In 1926, he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity honoris causa from the University of Edinburgh.
He became Principal of Regent's Park Baptist College, then still in London, and was responsible for moving the college to its present location at Oxford. When he came to Oxford as Principal of Regent’s Park College, he was the most outstanding British Old Testament scholar of the day. The Faculty of Theology immediately appointed him as an examiner, and he became a Reader in Biblical Criticism in 1934 and the Old Testament tutor for Mansfield College (F.M. Turner, The History of the University of Oxford. Vol. VIII: The Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, 297).
He was President of the Society for Old Testament Study in 1929 and Acting President 1941-45.