The move is a formality and either it or a similar title - the office of the Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds - is conferred on resigning MPs, whether or not they accept it.
But Irvine-born Robb, who works as a water bailiff and sometimes gamekeeper, is keen to pick up the pieces of his career after being assured by a doctor specialising in the condition and his family GP that he is fit to resume boxing.
Some 700 years ago, the story goes, a sadistic bailiff called Gessler decided to teach the people living around the many arms of mountain-flanked Lake Lucerne a lesson in obedience.
She said she would like to see independent regulation of the bailiff industry but her amendment was "just one small element of such a system - but a very important one".
"Consistent with long-standing precedent, the Chancellor has taken this as a request to be appointed the Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead and granted the office, " he added.