He is survived by Barbara, by a brother, Jim, by four sons, David, Charles, Andrew and Robert, and by eight grandchildren.
And while the Yale economist Robert Shiller has long advocated using markets to help individuals protect themselves against things like declining house prices or future unemployment, the chances of that happening now seem smaller than ever.
Built in 1890 by Robert Walker in Portland stone and listed by English Heritage as a site of special historical and architectural interest, the property boasts a penthouse suite with aerial views of the capital, dozens of rooms, spaces for entertaining, and a secure vault in the basement.
But he returned again and again to the posed naked figure, male and female – the ultimate test and validation, so the critic Robert Hughes has stated, of any artist's merit and painterly ability.
Of the decisions Cameron has taken since his re-election, the one that should frighten Labour the most is the appointment of Robert Halfon, MP for Harlow, to work on a review of Tory structures.
A photo of Robert Mugabe falling down the stairs has spread like wildfire online after the 90-year-old Zimbabwe president took a tumble outside Harare airport, where he had been speaking to supporters.
Remembrance has been set in stone, but, as Robert Musil once remarked, "there is nothing in the world as invisible as a monument".
The belief of others - as much as self-belief - seems to be very important to Robert Carlyle.
The prices match the outrageous history though: rooms from $415 plus tax to $4,500, +1 323 656 1010, chateaumarmont.com "I am a Golden God!" It is 1975, the height of rock's heyday, and Robert Plant, Led Zeppelin's debonair vocalist, declares his rock star status from his hotel balcony.
It features covers of Smog and Robert Johnson, and was produced by XL boss Richard Russell (who tracked the American legend down to Rikers Island prison to ensure it was made).
Walker recounted such cases before Robert Slaney's Health of Towns committee in 1840.
