Robert Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster

The Right Honourable The Lord Armstrong of Ilminster GCB CVO
Official portrait, 2018
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 26 February 1988 – 3 April 2020 Life peerage
Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
In office 1970–1975
Prime Minister	Edward Heath Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Alexander Isserlis
Succeeded by	Kenneth Stowe
Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office
In office 1977–1979
Prime Minister	James Callaghan
Preceded by	Sir Arthur Peterson
Succeeded by	Brian Cubbon
Cabinet Secretary
In office 1979–1987
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Sir John Hunt
Succeeded by	Sir Robin Butler
Head of the Home Civil Service
In office 1981–1987
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Sir Douglas Allen
Succeeded by	Sir Robin Butler
Chancellor of the University of Hull
In office 1994 – 12 April 2006
Preceded by	Richard Wilberforce
Succeeded by	Virginia Bottomley
Personal details
Born	Robert Temple Armstrong (1927-03-30)30 March 1927 Headington, Oxford, England
Died	3 April 2020(2020-04-03) (aged 93) Ashill, Somerset, England
Political party	None (crossbencher)
Spouses	Serena Mary Benedicta ​ ​ (m. 1953, divorced)​ Mary Patricia Carlow ​ ​ (m. 1985)​
Relations	Sir Thomas H. W. Armstrong (father)
Children	2
Education	Dragon School Eton College
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford
Occupation	Civil servant

Robert Temple Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster, GCB, CVO (30 March 1927 – 3 April 2020) was a British civil servant and life peer.^[1]