Frank Marshall, Baron Marshall of Leeds

Frank Shaw Marshall, Baron Marshall of Leeds (1915–1990)[1] was a British lawyer and politician, and a member of the House of Lords.

He was born in Wakefield on 26 September 1915 and after attending Queen Elizabeth Grammar School there he studied law at Downing College, Cambridge. During the second world war he served in the Royal Tank Regiment, and after the war qualified as a solicitor. He was a member of Leeds City Council from 1960 and its leader 1967–72.[2]

He was knighted in 1971[3] for "services to local government" and was created a life peer on 11 July 1980, taking the title Baron Marshall of Leeds, of Shadwell in the City of Leeds.[4][5] He was considered to be "a grandee of the Conservative Party at the national level".[6]

He was chairman of the Municipal Mutual Insurance Group of Companies from 1978, and of Dartford International Ferry Terminal Ltd from 1987; a director of the Leeds and Holbeck Building Society 1962–1968 and its president in 1967–69 and 1977–79; and a director of several other companies, including Barr & Wallace Arnold Trust PLC from 1953.[7]

In 1978 he was commissioned to review the local government of London, in a climate where there was pressure to abolish the Greater London Council, and produced the Marshall Report.[8] He was an honorary freeman of Leeds and a freeman of the City of London.[7]

He married Mary Barr, daughter of the founder of Barr and Wallace Arnold coach holiday company, and they had two daughters, Angela and Virginia.[2][6] He died on 1 November 1990.[2]

His daughters gave the glass Angel Screen by Sally Scott to Leeds Minster in 1997, in memory of both their parents.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Mr Frank Marshall". Hansard. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 "Obituary -- Lord Marshall of Leeds Kt". Law Society Gazette. 23 January 1991. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 45317. p. 1917. 5 March 1971.
  4. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 48253. p. 10119. 16 July 1980.
  5. ↑ "Lord Marshall of Leeds". Hansard. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  6. 1 2 3 "Angela Widdows (obituary)". The Telegraph. 5 August 2005. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  7. 1 2 "Marshall of Leeds, Baron". Who's Who 2012 and Who Was Who. Retrieved 4 September 2012. Available online to subscribers and also in print
  8. ↑ White, Jerry (2008). "The Greater London Council,1965-1986" (PDF). Greater London: 50 years of reform and government. London School of Economics. p. 5. Retrieved 4 September 2012.


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