Robin Ross
{{Short description|Royal Marines Lieutenant General (born 1939)}}
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Lieutenant General Sir Robert Jeremy "Robin" Ross, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KCB|OBE}} (born 28 November 1939) is a former Royal Marines officer who served as Commandant General Royal Marines from 1994 to 1996.
Military career
Educated at Wellington College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Ross joined the Royal Marines in 1957.Debrett's People of Today 1994 He became Commanding Officer of 40 Commando in 1979, commander of 3 Commando Brigade in 1986 and Commander, Training and Reserves in 1988.[http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201900-.pdf Royal Navy Senior Appointments] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315105247/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201900-.pdf |date=15 March 2012 }} He was appointed Commander, Commando Forces in 1990 and led an Anglo-Dutch Force that took part in Operation Safe Haven, a humanitarian operation to protect the Kurdish people in Northern Iraq in 1991.[http://www.isolon.com/index.jsp?menu_id=9&link_id=4 iSolon][http://www.britains-smallwars.com/RRGP/SafeHaven.htm Operation Safe Haven: Northern Iraq 1991] He became Commandant General Royal Marines in 1994, and retired in 1996.
Later life
Upon retirement Ross became Chairman of SSAFA Forces Help,[http://www.princemichael.org.uk/diary/archive/march-2010/ HRH Prince Michael of Kent GCVO] a member of the International Investment Council of South Africa, and a churchwarden of St John the Baptist Church at Berwick St John in Wiltshire.{{cite web|date=2011|title=Church News|url=http://www.berwickstjohn.com/church-news|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426015835/http://www.berwickstjohn.com/church-news|archive-date=26 April 2012|website=berwickstjohn.com|via=Internet Archive}}
Family
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Category:Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
Category:Officers of the Legion of Merit
Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Category:People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire
Category:Recipients of the Decoration of Merit
Category:Royal Marines lieutenant generals