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 Parkhurst (died 1651) June 1642, in Saint Margaret, Westminster. His son Robert and John were also MPs. Robert Parkhurst (died 1651) Sir Robert Parkhurst (1603 – August 1651) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1625 and 1651. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War. Parkhurst was the son of Sir Robert Parkhurst, Lord Mayor of London, and his wife Eleanor Babington, daughter of William Babington. He was baptised at Saint Mary Le Bow on 5 July 1603. In 1625 Parkhurst was elected Member of Parliament for Guildford. He was re-elected in 1626 and in