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 Harley (died 1673) Robert Harley (died 1673) Sir Robert Harley FRS (6 April 1626 – 6 November 1673) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1647 to 1648 and in 1660. Harley was the son of Sir Robert Harley and his third wife Brilliana, the daughter of Edward Conway, 1st Viscount Conway. He was educated privately under Mr Simons. During the English Civil War, he served in the Parliamentary Army from 1643 to 1647. He was appointed Steward of the King's Manor or lordship of Cantref Moelynaidd, and of the boroughs of Knighton and Presteign, Radnorshire. Harley married