{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}} {{Use British English|date=January 2018}} Commander '''Sir Robert Micklem''', CBE (5 June 1891 – 13 May 1952) was a naval officer, submariner and chairman and a managing director of the British engineerings company Vickers-Armstrongs.
==Early life== Micklem was born '''Edward Robert Micklem''' on 5 June 1891 in Chingford, Essex,<ref name="obit" /> the son of Leonard Micklem of Abbot's Mead at Elstree in Hertfordshire, by his second wife, Nanette Fenwick. He was the younger brother of Brigadier-General John Micklem DSO MC and half-brother of the Very Rev Philip Micklem. Micklem joined the Royal Navy in 1903 and served for two years in the submarine service during the First World War.<ref name="obit" />
==Vickers and Second World War== He retired from the Navy as a Commander in 1919 and he went to work for companies associated with Vickers becoming General Manager at Elswick in 1928.<ref name="obit" /> He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1942 Birthday Honours.<ref name="obit" />
During the second world war he acted as chairman of Tank Board from 1942 to 1944 and a chairman in the Ministry of Supply of the armoured fighting vehicle division.<ref name="obit" /> He was knighted in 1946.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=37407|supp=y|page=2|date=1 January 1946}}</ref> Within a few years of the end of the war he became firstly deputy chairman and then chairman of Vickers-Armstrongs.<ref name="obit" /> In 1951 he was appointed joint managing director of Vickers until he resigned due to ill health in April 1952.<ref name="obit" />
==Family life== Micklem married Sibyl Head in 1922 and they had a son and daughter.<ref name="obit" /> Micklem died in a nursing home in the Marylebone district of London on 13 May 1952, aged 60.<ref name="obit" />
==References== <references>
<ref name="obit"> "Sir Robert Micklem." Times [London, England] 14 May 1952: 8. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 26 July 2015.</ref>
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