Frank Shaw Marshall, Baron Marshall of Leeds
KBE (26 September 1915 – 1 November 1990) was a British lawyer and politician who was a member of the
House of Lords
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from 1980 until his death in 1990.
Biography
Marshall was born in
Wakefield
Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder. The city had a population of 99,251 in the 2011 census.https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ks101ew Census 2011 table KS101EW Usual resident population, ...
and attended
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School. He then studied law at
Downing College
Downing College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge and currently has around 650 students. Founded in 1800, it was the only college to be added to Cambridge University between 1596 and 1869, and is often described as the olde ...
,
Cambridge
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. During the
Second World War
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, he served in the
Royal Tank Regiment, and after the war qualified as a solicitor. He was a member of
Leeds City Council
Leeds City Council is the local authority of the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. It is a metropolitan district council, one of five in West Yorkshire and one of 36 in the metropolitan counties of England, and provides the majority of l ...
from
1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
January
* Jan ...
and led the council from
1967
Events
January
* January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair.
* January 5
** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...
to
1972
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using mean solar tim ...
.
He was
knighted in 1971 for "services to local government" and was created a
life peer on 11 July 1980, taking the title Baron Marshall of Leeds, of
Shadwell
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in the
City of Leeds
The City of Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. The metropolitan borough includes the administrative centre of Leeds and the towns of Farsley, Garforth, Guiseley, Horsforth, Morley, Otley, Pudsey, Rothwell, W ...
. He was considered to be "a grandee of the Conservative Party at the national level".
He was chairman of the
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Over the following decades it became responsible for insuring most p ...
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.
From 1983–1987, he served as the President of the
Institute of Transport Administration
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.
In 1978, he was commissioned to review the local government of London, at a time where there was increasing pressure to abolish the
Greater London Council, hence he produced the ''Marshall Report''.
He was an honorary freeman of
Leeds
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and a freeman of the
City of London
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.
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He married Mary Barr, daughter of the founder of Barr and
Wallace Arnold
Wallace Arnold (Barr & Wallace Arnold Trust) was one of the UK's largest holiday motorcoach tour operators.
History
Wallace Arnold was founded in 1912 and was named after two of its founders Wallace Cunningham and Arnold Crowe. In 1926, the Bar ...
coach holiday company, and they had two daughters, Angela and Virginia.
His daughters donated the glass Angel Screen by Sally Scott to
Leeds Minster
Leeds Minster, or the Minster and Parish Church of Saint Peter-at-Leeds (formerly Leeds Parish Church) is the minster church of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It stands on the site of the oldest church in the city and is of architectural and l ...
in 1997, in memory of both their parents.
References
1915 births
1990 deaths
Alumni of Downing College, Cambridge
British Army personnel of World War II
Conservative Party (UK) life peers
Councillors in Leeds
Knights Bachelor
People educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield
Royal Tank Regiment officers
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