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
Sir Robert Cordell, 1st Baronet March 1681 with her father and husband at St Lawrence Jewry. Their daughter, Sarah, married the politician Sir William Spring. Sir Robert Cordell, 1st Baronet Sir Robert Cordell, 1st Baronet (died c. 1680) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1660 and 1679. Cordell was the son of Sir John Cordell, of St Lawrence Old Jewry, London and his wife Sarah, daughter of Robert Bankworth or Barbow of London. Before 1643, he repurchased from the family of Savage the estate of Long Melford formerly belonging to Sir William Cordell and