He began life as chaplain and tutor in the family of Sir John Gell at Hopton, Derbyshire.
Chapleau Ojibwe forefathers were not, however, signatories to the Robinson Treaties, partly because Benjamin Robinson did not take the time to meet with inland First Nation communities and partly because inland First Nation leaders were reluctant to travel as a result of a cholera outbreak in 1849.
In 1694 an early school was started here by Rev. Benjamin Robinson, the local presbyterian minister (for which he was summoned to explain why to the bishop).
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The fungus that causes sporotrichosis was earlier identified by American physician Benjamin Robinson Schenck (1873-1920), and was named Sporothrix schenckii in Schenck's honor.