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 Tyrwhitt (MP died 1581) daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Oxenbridge (died 1540), of Etchingham in Sussex, and his wife Elizabeth (died 1529), daughter of Sir George Puttenham and aunt of the writer George Puttenham. She was the niece of the Elizabeth Oxenbridge who had married her husband's uncle. They are credited with 22 children, 9 sons and 13 daughters, among them: Robert Tyrwhitt (MP died 1581) Sir Robert Tyrwhitt (died 1581), of Kettleby in Lincolnshire, was an English landowner, politician and administrator whose adherence to Roman Catholicism later led to imprisonment. Born about 1510, he was the eldest son of Sir William Tyrwhitt