Sir Robert Malpas CBE FREng FRSA FIMechE (9 August 1927 – 18 June 2023) was a British engineer and businessman.
The son of Cheshyre Malpas and his wife Louise Marie Marcelle Malpas, he was educated at Taunton School and St George's College, Quilmes, Argentina, and then at Durham University, where he read for a Mechanical engineering BSc degree, graduating with first-class honours.
[citation needed] On 27 April 2018, Malpas was suddenly and without warning pushed onto the train tracks at Marble Arch tube station suffering a broken pelvis and a head wound.
[4] A bystander rescued him from the tracks and the perpetrator who was unknown to Malpas, was later found guilty of attempted murder[4][5] and jailed for life.
[4] In June 2021, Malpas was featured on an episode of 24 Hours in A&E, being treated at St George's Hospital, London, in Autumn 2020 after suffering from a low heart rate, dizziness and confusion, from which he recovered.