 He was President of the Society for Old Testament Study in 1929 and Acting President 1941-45.There exists in the McPherson Library, University of Victoria, an undated letter from Freddy Hood, a member of the Chapter, and later Principal, of Pusey House, to John Betjeman, in which he wrote,

(John Betjeman was not, of course, an Irvingite).Rex Mason devoted his Presidential Address to the Society for Old Testament Study to the topic, "H. Wheeler Robinson Revisited".