• Name: Robinson, Henry Crabb
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: 13  May  1775
• Death Date: 5  February  1867
• Occupation: diarist
• Occupation: journalist

H Robinson has been taken to denote Henry Crabb Robinson. For a full account of the Robinsons in the diary see .

Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867), diarist and journalist appears (usually as H Robinson) over 250 times in Godwin’s diary. The two became intimate around 1810, although they had been acquainted before. See the 1810 entry in the Diary of Crabb Robinson: ‘I remained all the spring and summer in London, with the exception of making short journeys; and spent my time at Collier’s, keeping up with my old visiting acquaintances and making new. I became more intimate with Godwin, who was keeping a bookseller’s shop in his wife’s name. I now and then saw interesting persons at his house; indeed, I saw none but remarkable persons there. Among the most remarkable was the great Irish orator, Curran. His talk was rich in idiom and imagery, and in warmth of feeling’.

A comparison between diaries (including lists of persons at dinner parties) also supports the identification of H Robinson as Henry Crabb. For example, 18 November 1810 Crabb notes, 'At Godwin’s with Northcote, Coleridge, and c. Coleridge made himself very merry at the expense of Fuseli, whom he always called Fuzzle or Fuzly.' and Godwin records, 'Coleridge, Northcote, 2 Dawes, 3 Fenwicks, H Robinson & T T dine'.
Other instances of Crabb's contact with Godwin include 22 October 1810: 'Called on Godwin. Curran, the Master of the Rolls of Ireland, was with him'. And 26 January 1812: ' A dinner-party. Coleridge, Godwin, and c., and c. The company rather too numerous. Coleridge by no means the eloquent man he usually is...'

• DNB
• Book The Diary of Henry Crabb Robinson, ed. by Edith J. Morley, 3 vols (London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1938).

This table lists the people this person is most frequently noted with in the diary.