Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown

Robert "Robin" Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown (5 January 1927 – 24 November 2013) was a British life peer and banker, who served as Governor of the Bank of England from 1983 to 1993.

Education and career

Leigh-Pemberton was educated at St Peter's Court, then at Eton College. He attended Trinity College, Oxford, He served as a Justice of the Peace and as Leader of Kent County Council. He eventually became chairman of the National Westminster Bank, then Governor of the Bank of England from 1983 until 1993.

Honours He was appointed to the Privy Council in 1987, and created a life peer on 14 July 1993, as Baron Kingsdown, of Pemberton in the County of Lancashire. He became a Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter in 1994, and was also the Lord Lieutenant of Kent from 1982 to 2002. Between 1979 and 1992, he served as Honorary Colonel of the Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry and between 1977 and 1984 he served as Pro-chancellor of the University of Kent.

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