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
Sir Robert Ferguson, 2nd Baronet in 1860, at the age of 63, when the baronetcy became extinct. In 1859 he voted in favour of the Derby ministry's reform bill. Sir Robert Ferguson, 2nd Baronet Sir Robert Alexander Ferguson, 2nd Baronet (26 December 1795 –13 March 1860) was a Whig and then Liberal Party politician from Ireland. Ferguson was born in Londonderry in 1796 as son of Sir Andrew Ferguson (1761–1808), a banker and mayor of Londonderry from 1796 to 1798, and Elizabeth, daughter of the Londonderry merchant Robert Alexander of Broom Hall, who was the brother of the first James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon.