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 Croke (died 1671) Robert Croke (died 1671) Robert Croke (c 1636 – 30 July 1671) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1671. Croke was the son of Sir Robert Croke of Hampton Poyle, Oxfordshire and his wife Susanna Van Lore, daughter of Sir Peter Van Lore, 1st Baronet of Tilehurst, Berkshire. He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford on 24 June 1653. He was a student of Inner Temple in 1655 and was called to the bar in 1661. He lived at Chequers and in 1661, he was elected Member of Parliament for Wendover