[1] Rob was born in Chertsey, Surrey and educated at Hordle House School, Oundle School and St John's College, Cambridge.
[1] In 1939 he joined the Consular Service but in September 1940 he enlisted on the Scots Guards.
[1] Rob returned to the Foreign Office at the end of the war becoming deputy head of the News Department for three years, he later became a Counsellor in New Delhi and Warsaw.
[1] Between 1960 and 1962 he was the British Ambassador to the Central African Republic, Chad, Gabon and Congo.
[1] He returned to the United Kingdom in 1969 due to ill health and acted as a part-time advisior to the Foreign Office Research Department.