Sir Robin Gillett?

[Leigh Rayment]

There is a death notice for a Sir Robin Gillett in today's Times. Presumably this is the 2nd baronet......?

[Richard R]

Must be one and the same as I'm not aware of any other Sir Robin
Gillett. And the request for donations to RNLI reflect his strong
nautical background. Strange they didn't enter his full names (Robin
Danvers Penrose), which would have clinched the matter. Maybe the
family fealt, as the only Sir Robin Gillett, there was no need for
that.

He's succeeded by his son, Nicholas Danvers Penrose Gillett b 1955 &
resident in California, USA. He m 1987 (divorced 1997) Haylie dau of
Dennis Brooks, of Abertawe, West Glamorgan (no issue), so no Lady
Gillett to confuse with the new widow. His hp is his brother
Christopher John Gillett (b 1958) who, having married twice, has a son
Adam Holmes (b 1989) and a dau Tessa Holmes (b 1987) from his first
marriage. There are no other heirs.

[Michael Rhodes]

Sir Robin Gillett, 2nd Baronet, who died 21 April, 2009, aged 83, was
Lord Mayor of London, 1976-77.

Robin Danvers Penrose Gillett was born 9 Nov 1925, the son of Sir
(Sydney) Harold Gillett, 1st Bt, MC, who was Lord Mayor of London,
1958-59.

He was educated at the Nautical College, Pangbourne, and Hill Crest
School. He married in 1950, Elizabeth Marion Grace, the elder dau of
John Findlay, JP, of Busby House, Lanarks, and is now succeeded in the
baronetcy (cr 1959) by his elder son, Nicholas Danvers Penrose
Gillett, born 24 September, 1955.


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[Richard R]

Here's his Telegraph obit:

Sir Robin Gillett, 2nd Bt, who died on April 21 aged 83, was Lord
Mayor of London during the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations in
1977.
His father, Captain Sir Harold Gillett, MC, was the 631st Lord Mayor
in 1958; when Robin Gillett took the office in 1976 he became the
649th.
Robin Gillett remarked that being Lord Mayor meant far more than just
"poncing around in medieval drag". He loved his ceremonial role and
"funny gear" nevertheless. On Silver Jubilee Day, June 6 1977, he
presided over one of the happiest ceremonial occasions ever witnessed
in the City – and watched by a worldwide television audience – in
which Her Majesty, in striking sugar-pink, proceeded from a service at
St Paul's via a walkabout in Cheapside to lunch at the Guildhall.
[He] was born in 1925 on what was then Lord Mayor's Day, November 9,
in the Knightsbridge house which was to be his London home for most of
his life.
Robin Gillett married first, in 1950, Elizabeth (Libby) Grace, who
died in an accident at Cowes in 1997. They had two sons, of whom the
elder, Nicholas, born in 1955, succeeds in the baronetcy; the younger
son is the operatic tenor Christopher Gillett. Sir Robin married
secondly, in 2000, Alwyne Cox, but they separated in 2004.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/5369693/Sir-Robin-Gillett-Bt.html

On Apr 23, 12:41 pm, Michael Rhodes <mig73allenford2...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
> SirRobinGillett, 2nd Baronet, who died 21 April, 2009, aged 83, was

> Lord Mayor of London, 1976-77.
>

> RobinDanvers Penrose Gillett was born 9 Nov 1925, the son of Sir