Robert Boscawen

The Right Honourable Robert Boscawen MC, PC
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
In office 17 February 1983 – 16 October 1986
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Carol Mather
Succeeded by	Tristan Garel-Jones
Comptroller of the Household
In office 16 October 1986 – 26 July 1988
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Carol Mather
Succeeded by	Tristan Garel-Jones

Robert "Bob" Thomas Boscawen, MC, PC (17 March 1923 – 28 December 2013) was a British Conservative politician. He was the last member of the House of Commons to hold a Military Cross for action during the Second World War.

Robert Boscawen was the fourth son of Evelyn Hugh John Boscawen, eighth Viscount Falmouth, of Tregothnan, by his wife Mary (née Meynell, descended from the Earls of Halifax) A member of a very old Cornish family, his ancestors included Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, and Admiral Edward Boscawen, victor over the French at the Battle of Lagos. Boscawen was educated at West Downs School and Eton College.

Too young to serve at the outbreak of the Second World War, Boscawen went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read mechanical science and took the special army engineering course. In 1941, he joined the Royal Engineers, but the following year was commissioned in the Coldstream Guards (with which members of his family had served since 1769, including his brothers George and Evelyn, who had been killed during the evacuation from Dunkirk) of the Guards Armoured Division and was sent to the cavalry wing of Sandhurst to train as a tank commander. In 1944, his was among the first tanks to enter Brussels and he was awarded the Military Cross in the battle to relieve Arnhem.

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