Robert Kitzinger was a founding Trustee of the Mary Kitzinger Trust in 1985, set up in the same year that his beloved younger sister died. He served the Trust until 2025, retiring in April of that year. The Trustees voted unanimously to confer Life Presidency of the Trust upon him.

Robert graduated with a degree in French and Spanish from the University of Southampton, and went on to have a career in corporate finance with 3i, as Chairman of First Independent Corporate Finance and a director of EFG Private Bank. Robert became a cricket umpire with a special interest in youth cricket and was President of the Somerset Association of Cricket Officials.