Ezekiel Gilman Robinson, an American clergyman, born at Attleborough, Mass., March 23, 1815. He graduated at Brown university in 1838, at Newton theological institution in 1842, and was ordained and settled as pastor of a Baptist church in Norfolk, Va., in November, 1842. In 1846 he accepted the professorship of Hebrew in the theological seminary at Covington, Ky., but lost it in 1848 when during the anti-slavery troubles the legislature changed the charter. In 1853 he became a professor in the Rochester theological seminary, of which he was subsequently made president. In 1872 he became president of Brown university, which office he still holds (1875). He edited the "Christian Review," quarterly, from 1859 till 1864, when it was merged in the "Bib-liotheca Sacra." He has published a translation of the fourth edition of Neander's church history (8vo, New York. 1865), and "The Relation of the Church and the Bible" (1866). He is noted as a powerful and popular preacher and an effective political orator.