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 Oxenbridge (died 1638) Robert Oxenbridge (died 1638) Sir Robert Oxenbridge (1595–1638) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1624. Oxenbridge was the son of Sir Robert Oxenbridge of Hurstbourne Priors, Hampshire and his wife Elizabeth Cook, daughter of Sir Henry Coke of Broxbourne He entered Gray's Inn on October 26, 1614. In 1616 he succeeded to the estates at Hurstbourne on the death of his father and was knighted at Newmarket in November 1616. In 1621, Oxenbridge was elected Member of Parliament for Whitchurch. He was elected MP for Hampshire in 1624 and for