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.
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] |