George Robb was born in Prestwich, Lancashire, England on 14 August 1910. Little known about his training as an architect. He is listed as an architectural student living in Manchester in the RIBA Kalendar 1932-33.
He was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1933 and practised as an architect in Prestwich until at least the late 1930s. By the early 1950s he had moved to Derbyshire.
Designs for a house by Robb are illustrated in Ideal Houses. A selection of Designs from the Architects' Competition promoted by the Red Triangle Cement Organisation (London: The Portland Cement Selling & Distribution Co., Ltd., 1929)
Robb's address was given as 3 Kenyon Lane, Prestwich, Lancashire in 1911; 25, Orange Hill Road, Heaton Park, Near. Manchester in 1929 and 1932 and "Kelvin", 199 Heywood Road, Glebelands, Prestwich, Lancashire in 1934 and 1939; and "Lintols", Chapel-in-Frith, Derbyshire in 1950.
In addition to his work as an architect, Robb was also a sculptor and exhibited at Manchester Academy of Fine Arts in 1938.
He died in High Peak, Derbyshire in 1998