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
Sir Benjamin Ayloffe, 4th Baronet surviving children on 5 March 1722, aged 91. The baronetcy passed to his nephew (the son of his younger brother Henry), Sir John Ayloffe (executed 1685). Benjamin Ayloffe married, 21 Sep. 1669, at North Ookendon, Essex, Martha, daughter of Sir John Tyrrell, of Heron, Essex, by his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Sir Laurence Washington. They had one son, John, who died about the age of twenty, unmarried; and two daughters, Margaret, married to the Rev. Mr. Jenks, Minister of St. Dunstan's in the West, London; and Martha, the wife of Mr. John Preston, of London, Merchant. Sir Benjamin Ayloffe,