The Viscount Caldecote KBE, DSC

The Viscount Caldecote KBE, DSC
Title:The Viscount
Surname:Caldecote
Post-nominals:KBE, DSC
Year elected:1969
Last year on list:1999
MembershipMember
Committee1981-1984
Robert Andrew "Robin" Inskip, 2nd Viscount Caldecote KBE DSC FREng (8 October 1917 – 20 September 1999) was a British peer and engineer.

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, he served in the RNVR during World War II gaining the DSC. 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.

Yachts Owned

NameRig ClassfromtoMMSI
Citara II Bermudan Sloop 1969 1973  
Citara of Lepe Auxiliary Sloop 1975 1981  
Citara III Sigma 36 1982 1999  

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