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Robert Micklem

Commander Sir Robert Micklem, CBE was a naval officer, submariner and chairman and managing director of the British engineerings company Vickers-Armstrongs.

Early life
Micklem was born Edward Robert Micklem on 5 June 1891 in Chingford, Essex, 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. ==Vickers and Second World War==
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. Within a few years of the end of the war he became firstly deputy chairman and then chairman of Vickers-Armstrongs. In 1951 he was appointed joint managing director of Vickers until he resigned due to ill health in April 1952. ==Family life==
Family life
Micklem married Sibyl Head in 1922 and they had a son and daughter. Micklem died in a nursing home in the Marylebone district of London on 13 May 1952, aged 60. ==References==
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