Richard Marriott,

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, TD, FSA (17 December 1930 – 22 February 2021) was a banker, stockbroker, company director, and public administrator who served as

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from 1996 to 2005."Marriott, Richard"
''Who's Who'' (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 5 June 2019. After attending

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and

Brasenose College, Oxford Brasenose College (BNC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It began as Brasenose Hall in the 13th century, before being founded as a college in 1509. The library and chapel were added in the mi ...

, Marriott was commissioned into the

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, serving for a year (although he subsequently commanded a regiment in the Territorial Army). He joined the private bank Brown, Shipley & Co. in 1954 and worked for them for ten years, moving to Mullens & Co., the government brokers, as a partner in 1964; he was one of two people who coordinated the British government's sale of its shares in BP in 1977, at the time the world's largest share offering. He left Mullens in 1986 and became director of

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, a position he gave up on becoming

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. In the public sphere, he sat on

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from 1986 until 1995 and was its High Sheriff in the 1991–92 year. In the 1990s and early 2000s, he sat on the councils of the

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and the

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. He was also Chairman of the

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from 1977 to 1986 and spent 28 years as financial adviser to the

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before he served as its treasurer from 1997 to 2000. Marriott was appointed a

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in the

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. He died on 22 February 2021.Richard Marriott, 90: Book-loving banker and lord-lieutenant who rebought family home
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References

1930 births 2021 deaths Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford British bankers Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London High Sheriffs in Yorkshire Lord-Lieutenants of the East Riding of Yorkshire People educated at Eton College Rifle Brigade officers {{UK-business-bio-1930s-stub