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Robin was born on the small family farm where he still lives
and which he now runs, in the village of Barton, Cambridgeshire.
He attended the village school, from where he went to the
Cambridgeshire High School for Boys.
As Robin was the second son, the farm was not big enough to
allow him to join his father and brother and so he went to Nottingham Teachers’
Training College. Surprisingly, really, he was forced to resign after eighteen
months. Apparently the Principal considered him to be a “ disruptive
influence”. Robin considered that much of the then trendy educational
philosophy was nonsense – based on fashionable and trendy mumbo-jumbo and not
on the needs of real education.
He then joined the Civil Service as a special investigator
for the Department of Social Security. Surprisingly, really, he was then sacked
for writing articles on social security abuse and the lies of the then Labour
Government (not a surprise). He wrote under a pseudonym, in the Spectator
(editor, Nigel Lawson), which broke the Official Secrets Act. He has been
writing as a freelance ever since. He was invited to join the staff of The
Daily Telegraph by the late Bill Deedes, but declined, preferring to follow his
own interests.
He has written for many national newspapers and magazines.
He has regular columns in The Daily Telegraph, The Countryman and the Shooting
Times – although he does not shoot. He also regularly contributes to the Daily
Mail and the Mail on Sunday.
He was presenter of “One Man and His Dog” for several years,
before being sacked for his opposition to the EU and his support for the
Countryside Marches. He was also banned from “Question Time” – see “Robin and
the BBC”.
He has written thirty-one books. He regards “The Decline of
an English Village” as his best – and the most important. He is currently
writing “The Lost Tribe of Britain”. He also runs his own small publishing
company “Bird’s Farm Books”. He started self-publishing when mainstream
publishers refused to publish “The Hunting Gene”, almost certainly for reasons
of political correctness. So, he published it himself – it was a great success,
being reprinted three times – as a result Robin has continued to publish his
own books – see “Robin’s Books”.
He has stood for Parliament as many times as he has been
arrested and lost count of the number of times he has been sacked.
He is founder and Chairman of the Countryside Restoration
Trust, Patron of Save Our Squirrels (red squirrels) and a Council Member of the
National Trust.
He is addicted to cricket and travelling off the beaten
track in Africa. With his wife Anita (Lulu) he is a “Wurzels” groupie.
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