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{{Use British English|date=September 2017}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name                = The Viscount Caldecote
| honorific-suffix    = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KBE|DSC|FREng}}
| image               = File:Robin Inskip, 2nd Viscount Caldecote.png
| caption             = Image by [[Godfrey Argent]]. Published 19 September 1969.
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| birth_date          = 8 October 1917
| death_date          = 20 September 1999
| office4             = [[Member of the House of Lords]]<br />[[Lords Temporal|Lord Temporal]]
| term_start4         = 11 October 1947
| term_end4           = 20 September 1999<br />[[Hereditary Peerage]]
| predecessor4        = [[Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote|The 1st Viscount Caldecote]]
| successor4          = [[Viscount Caldecote|The 3rd Viscount Caldecote]]
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| alma_mater          = [[Eton College]]
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'''Robert Andrew "Robin" Inskip, 2nd Viscount Caldecote''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KBE|DSC|FREng}} (8 October 1917 – 20 September 1999) was a British [[Peerage of the United Kingdom|peer]] and engineer.<ref>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/accessions/2000/00returns/00ac108.htm National Archives]</ref>

The son of [[Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote]], Inskip succeeded to the [[Viscount]]cy on the death of his father in 1947. Educated at [[Eton College|Eton]] and [[King's College, Cambridge]],<ref>[http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0272%2FKC%2FKCAC%2F1%2F2%2F6%2F1%2Finskip Janus]</ref> he served in the [[RNVR]] during [[World War II]] gaining the [[Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)|DSC]].<ref>[[Who's Who|"Who was Who" 1897-2007]] London, [[A & C Black]], 2007  {{ISBN|9780199540877}}</ref> When peace returned he was a [[Lecturer]] in [[Electrical Engineering]] at [[Cambridge University]] and after that [[Managing Director]] of [[English Electric|English Electric Aviation]]. He was instrumental in setting up the [[British Aircraft Corporation]] and also [[Chairman]] of the Delta Metal Company and [[3i|Investors in Industry]]. Additionally he was [[President (corporate title)|President]] of the [[Royal Academy of Engineering|Fellowship of Engineering]], [[Chairman]] of the [[Appointment of Church of England bishops|Crown Appointments Committee]] and [[Pro-Chancellor]] of the [[Cranfield Institute of Technology]]. His wife died in 2009.

==Arms==
{{Infobox COA wide
|image = Caldecote Achievement.png
|escutcheon = Per chevron Azure and Argent in chief two crosses pate Or and in base an eagled displayed of the first.
|crest = Upon the battlements of a tower a grouse’s leg erased Proper.
|supporters = On the dexter side a talbot and on the sinister side a pegasus Proper each charged on the shoulder with a garb Or.
|motto = Be Careful<ref>{{cite book|title=Burke's Peerage|date=1949}}</ref>}}

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Hansard-contribs | mr-robert-inskip | the Viscount Caldecote }}
*[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-viscount-caldecote-1122973.html Independent obituary]

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