Commander Sir Robert Micklem, CBE (5 June 1891 – 13 May 1952) was a naval officer, submariner and chairman and managing director of the British engineerings company Vickers-Armstrongs.
Micklem joined the Royal Navy in 1903 and served for two years in the submarine service during the First World War.
[1] 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.
[1] He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1942 Birthday Honours.
[1] In 1951 he was appointed joint managing director of Vickers until he resigned due to ill health in April 1952.