Edmund Marshall

Edmund Ian Marshall (31 May 1940 – 5 October 2023) was a British politician and churchman. After beginning his career as a Liberal councillor in Wallasey in the 1960s, he joined the Labour Party and was elected Member of Parliament for Goole at a 1971 by-election. He held the seat until 1983. He later joined the Social Democratic Party, which merged with the Liberals to become the Liberal Democrats.

Edmund Marshall
Member of Parliament
for Goole
In office
27 May 1971 – 13 May 1983
Preceded byGeorge Jeger
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born
Edmund Ian Marshall

(1940-05-31)31 May 1940
Manchester, England
Died5 October 2023(2023-10-05) (aged 83)
Norton Hawkfield, Somerset, England
Political partyLiberal Democrats (after 1988)
Social Democratic Party (1985–1988)
Labour (1967–1985)
Liberal Party (before 1967)
Spouses
  • Margaret Antill
    ​
    ​
    (m. 1969; died 2007)​
  • Margaret Masding
    ​
    (m. 2019)​
Children1
Alma materMagdalen College, Oxford
University of Liverpool

Early life

Marshall was born in Manchester on 31 May 1940.[1] He was educated at Humberstone Foundation School (also known as Clee Grammar School for Boys for Boys, which became the comprehensive Matthew Humberstone School in September 1973) on Clee Road in Old Clee, Cleethorpes, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took double first class honours in mathematics and was awarded a University Junior Mathematical Prize in 1961.[2] Marshall gained a PhD from the University of Liverpool in 1965. He became a mathematics university lecturer and a Methodist local preacher, also serving as Vice-president of the Methodist Conference in 1992.[2]

Parliamentary career

Marshall was a Liberal Party councillor on Wallasey Borough Council 1963-65 and parliamentary candidate for Louth in 1964 and 1966, but joined the Labour Party in 1967.[2]

In a 1971 by-election, Marshall was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Goole. From 1976 to 1979, he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Home Secretary, and as Chair of the Select Committee on Trade and Industry.[2]

As the Chair of the Select Committee on Trade and Industry, and as Chair of the Select Committee on the Channel Tunnel Bill, Marshall played a notable role in the development of Channel Tunnel project.[3]

Marshall left Parliament in 1983, when the Goole constituency was abolished in boundary changes. He stood to be the Labour candidate in the seat of Doncaster North, but lost the selection to Michael Welsh.[2]

After Parliament

In 1985, Marshall transferred to the Social Democratic Party and subsequently became a member of the Liberal Democrats.[2] He fought Bridlington for the SDP in 1987, coming second.[2] In 2015 he became a Trustee of the Parliamentary Outreach Trust, and became vice chairman of the trust in 2019.[2]

From 1997 to 2007, he advised the Church of England Bishop of Wakefield on ecumenical matters, and from 2000 to 2015 was a member of the General Synod of the Church of England.

Marshall was the author of two published books: Parliament and the Public (Macmillan 1982) and Business and Society (Routledge 1993).[2]

From 1984 to 2000, he was a lecturer in Management Science at the University of Bradford School of Management.[2]

Personal life and death

In 1969 he married Margaret Pamela Antill in Enfield. They had a daughter together and were married until Antill's death in 2007.[2] In 2019 he married Margaret Anthea Masding (née Martin Smith) in Oxford.[2]

Marshall died on 5 October 2023, aged 83.[2]

References
  1. "Dr Edmund Marshall". Hansard. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  2. "Edmund Marshall, mathematician who started as a Liberal, became a Labour MP and ended up a Lib Dem – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 23 October 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  3. "HC Deb 20 January 1975 vol 884 cc1021-34". Hansard.

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