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 Chapman, 2nd Baronet Sir Robert Chapman, 2nd Baronet Lieutenant Colonel Sir Robert MacGowan Chapman, 2nd Baronet, (12 February 1911 – 2 August 1987) was a Territorial Army officer who served as High Sheriff of Durham from 1960 to 1961, Deputy Lieutenant of Durham from 1952-1974, and later Vice-Lord-Lieutenant of Tyne and Wear. He was the son of Sir Robert Chapman, 1st Baronet and Hélène Paris MacGowan. He was educated at Marlborough College, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, graduating in 1933 with a BA degree, and in 1936 with an MA. He commissioned into the Royal Artillery on 10 February