Robert Grimsey was born in Kingston, Surrey, UK in 1953 and grew up in New Malden, Surrey. After leaving school at the age of sixteen, he worked for the Post Office Telephones as a telephone engineer. In 1979, he emigrated to the United States and became a citizen several years later. He worked for a couple of companies before working at AT&T. He has applied the techniques acquired in engineering to analyzing the Scriptures. While he has no credentials in the original Biblical languages, he has spent over twenty years acquainting himself with the original languages.