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
Robert Knollys (politician died 1659) until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. Knollys bought Greys Court from his uncle, William Knollys, Earl of Banbury, and died at the age of about 70 and was buried on 26 June 1659. Robert Knollys (politician died 1659) Sir Robert Knollys (1588–1659) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1629. Knollys was the son of Richard Knollys of Stanford-in-the-Vale in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). He matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford on 13 May 1603, aged 15. He was knighted on 12 January 1613. In 1614, he was