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 Oxenbridge (died 1616) Robert Oxenbridge (died 1616) Sir Robert Oxenbridge (died 1616) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1604 to 1611. Oxenbridge was the son of Robert Oxenbridge of Hurstbourne Priors, Hampshire. In 1591, he succeeded to the estates at Hurstbourne on the death of his father. He entered Lincoln's Inn in November 1592. He was knighted in August 1600. In 1604, Oxenbridge was elected Member of Parliament for Hampshire. He was active on committees on reform of the ministry, and although his brother was a Jesuit, he took an anti-Catholic line after the Gunpowder