Dudley Leigh Aman, 1st Baron Marley,

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(16 May 1884 – 29 February 1952), was a British soldier and Labour politician. Marley was the son of Edward Godfrey Aman, of

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, and was educated at

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and the

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. He joined the

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as a Second lieutenant 1 January 1902. During the

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he served in

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and

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as a Major in the

. He was

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and awarded the

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for his services at the

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. After the war he made five unsuccessful attempts to enter the

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for the Labour Party, at

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and

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, at

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, and at

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in a 1928 by-election and the 1929 general election. However, in January 1930 he was raised to the peerage by the Labour government of

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as Baron Marley, of Marley in the

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. Marley then served under Macdonald as

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and vice-president of the Army Council from June 1930 until the government fell in August 1931. From 1930 to 1937 he was Chief Labour Whip in the

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and served as a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords from 1930 to 1941. As Chairman of the Parliamentary Advisory Committee for the aid of Jews in Europe Marley became deeply involved in the

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, an area in eastern

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which was designated by

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as an autonomous area for the

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. He wrote the introduction to '' The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror and the Burning of the Reichstag'', a publication on the conditions of the Jewish population which greatly raised awareness among American Jewry about the Jews of Germany.

Personal life

Lord Marley married Octable Turquet Reid, daughter of Sir Hugh Gilzean Reid, in 1910. He died in February 1952, aged 67, and was succeeded in the barony by his only son Godfrey. Lady Marley died in 1969.

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. *
Biography of Lord MarleyArticle on Lord Marley at the jewishquarterly.org

External links

Einstein Opines Non-Jewish Foreign Involvement in Publication of The Brown Book
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