Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown

The Right Honourable Robert "Robin" Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown, KG (born 5 January 1927) is a current cross-bencher on the House of Lords, and formerly a lawyer and banker.

Leigh-Pemberton was educated at St Peter's Court, then at Eton College. He attended Trinity College, Oxford, where he earned an MA in 1950. In 1954, he was called to the Bar, and he practised law for a few years. He eventually became Chairman of the National Westminster Bank, then Governor, Bank of England until 1993. He was appointed to the Privy Council in 1987, and created a life peer in 1993, as Baron Kingsdown, of Pemberton in the County of Lancashire. He became a Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1994, and was also the Lord-Lieutenant of Kent.