Robert "Robin" Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown (5 January 1927 – 24 November 2013) was a British peer and banker, who served as Governor of the Bank of England from 1983 to 1993.
In 1954, he was called to the Bar, and he practised law for several years before returning to Kent to manage the family estate of Torry Hill.
[5] He was appointed to the Privy Council in 1987,[6] and created a life peer on 14 July 1993, as Baron Kingsdown, of Pemberton in the County of Lancashire.
On the grounds of the estate, there is also what is believed to be the only Eton Fives court attached to a private dwelling; it was built in 1925.
One of his sons, James Leigh-Pemberton, continues the family's association with the Duchy of Cornwall (beginning with its Chancellor, the 1st Baron Kingsdown) as Receiver-General.