Robin Herd

Robert John "Robin" Herd CBE (23 March 1939 – 4 June 2019[1]) was an English engineer, designer and businessman.

[2] Herd studied at St Peter's College, Oxford, having turned down an offer to play cricket for Worcestershire at the age of 18.

He initially entered Oxford with a scholarship to study mathematics, however he switched subjects and graduated with a double first in physics and engineering,[3][4] before joining the Royal Aircraft Establishment in 1961 as a design engineer on the Concorde supersonic aircraft project, focussing on computational fluid dynamics.

[4] From 1995 to 1998, he served as Chairman of Oxford United F.C., with the team winning promotion to Football League Division One during his first season at the helm.

[7][8] Herd was appointed a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1986 New Year Honours, as managing director of March.