Robin Inskip, 2nd Viscount Caldecote explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Viscount Caldecote
Birth Date:8 October 1917
Death Date:20 September 1999
Office4:Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Term Start4:11 October 1947
Term End4:20 September 1999
Hereditary Peerage
Predecessor4:The 1st Viscount Caldecote
Successor4:The 3rd Viscount Caldecote
Alma Mater:Eton College

Robert Andrew "Robin" Inskip, 2nd Viscount Caldecote (8 October 1917 – 20 September 1999) was a British peer and engineer.[1]

The son of Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote, Inskip succeeded to the Viscountcy on the death of his father in 1947. Educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge,[2] he served in the RNVR during World War II gaining the DSC.[3] When peace returned he was a Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at Cambridge University and after that Managing Director of English Electric Aviation. He was instrumental in setting up the British Aircraft Corporation and also Chairman of the Delta Metal Company and Investors in Industry. Additionally he was President of the Fellowship of Engineering, Chairman of the Crown Appointments Committee and Pro-Chancellor of the Cranfield Institute of Technology. His wife died in 2009.

Arms

Escutcheon:Per chevron Azure and Argent in chief two crosses pate Or and in base an eagled displayed of the first.
Crest:Upon the battlements of a tower a grouse’s leg erased Proper.
Supporters:On the dexter side a talbot and on the sinister side a pegasus Proper each charged on the shoulder with a garb Or.
Motto:Be Careful[4]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/accessions/2000/00returns/00ac108.htm National Archives
  2. http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0272%2FKC%2FKCAC%2F1%2F2%2F6%2F1%2Finskip Janus
  3. [Who's Who|"Who was Who" 1897-2007]
  4. Book: Burke's Peerage. 1949.