Robert "Robin" John Grote Mayor CB (20 August 1869 – 19 June 1947) was a British civil servant at the Education Department and philosopher.
[1] He was educated at Temple Grove School and then at Eton College, where he was awarded the Newcastle Scholarship.
[1] He earned first-class honours at King's College, Cambridge, and he won the Inter-Varsity Cross Country Championship in 1891.
[1] Mayor was a keen alpinist and spent his leisure time ascending the peaks of Europe.
He frequently climbed with Geoffrey Winthrop Young, who wrote, "Robin Mayor's happy mountaineering habit was to make every party, plan, pace, length of expedition and degree of difficulty seem to his friends exactly the one which suited him best.