Robert Mark Robert Mark Sir Robert Mark (13 March 1917 – 30 September 2010) was an English police officer who served as Chief Constable of Leicester City Police, and later as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 1972 to 1977. Mark was the first Metropolitan Commissioner to have risen through all the ranks from the lowest to the highest (a route followed by all subsequent Commissioners), although a few predecessors had served as Constables prior to fast-track promotion. Mark was born in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, a suburb of Manchester, the youngest of five children of a prosperous mantle manufacturer originally from Yorkshire. He was
Robert Jones (died 1715) Robert Jones (died 1715) Robert Jones (c. 1682 – 19 December 1715) of Fonmon, Glamorgan, Wales was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1712 to 1715. Jones was a younger son of Oliver Jones (died 1685) of Fonmon Castle, and his wife Mary Button. His grandfather, Col. Philip Jones, had sat in Cromwell's Upper House. Robert was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating at 15 in 1698. He succeeded his elder brother Philip to Fonmon in 1686. In 1703, he married Mary Edwin, the daughter of Sir Humphrey Edwin, Mercer, alderman and Lord Mayor of