Robert Mark Society", published in 1977. 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
Robert Parkhurst (died 1674) Robert Parkhurst (died 1674) Sir Robert Parkhurst (died 1674) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659. Parkhurst was the son of Sir Robert Parkhurst and his wife Elizabeth Baker, daughter of Henry Baker. He was admitted at Emmanuel College, Cambridge on 24 May 1647 and admitted at Inner Temple on 30 October 1648. He inherited the estates including Pyrford on the death of his father in 1651 In 1659 Parkhurst was elected Member of Parliament for Guildford in the Third Protectorate Parliament. He was knighted on 9 June 1660. Parkhurst died in 1674 and