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 Smyth, 5th Baronet England for, as Paine wrote to the French minister, he liked “neither the Government nor climate of England”. Smyth died at Paris on 12 April 1807. Sir Robert Smyth, 5th Baronet Sir Robert Smyth, 5th Baronet (10 January 1744 – 12 April 1807) was a British politician and revolutionary who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1790. Smyth was the son of Rev. Robert Smyth, vicar of Woolavington, Sussex, and his wife Dorothy Lloyd, daughter of Thomas Lloyd of Dolyglunnen, Merioneth. He was educated at Westminster School. He was admitted at Lincoln’s Inn on 3 April 1761