Frank Marshall, Baron Marshall of Leeds

Frank Shaw Marshall, Baron Marshall of Leeds KBE (26 September 1915 – 1 November 1990)[1] was a British lawyer and politician who was a member of the House of Lords from 1980 until his death in 1990.

The Lord Marshall of Leeds
KBE
Marshall taking his seat in the House of Lords (1980)
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
11 July 1980 – 1 November 1990
Life Peerage
Leader of Leeds City Council
In office
1967–1972
Preceded byUnknown
Succeeded bySir Albert King
Leeds City Councillor
for Allerton Ward
In office
1962–1968
Preceded byM. Mustill
Succeeded byWard abolished
Personal details
Born
Frank Shaw Marshall

(1915-09-26)26 September 1915
Wakefield, England
Died11 January 1990(1990-01-11) (aged 74)
Political partyConservative
SpouseMary Barr
Children2
EducationQueen Elizabeth Grammar School
Alma materDowning College, Cambridge

Biography

Marshall was born in Wakefield and attended Queen Elizabeth Grammar School. He then 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 led the council from 1967 to 1972.[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] From 1983–1987, he served as the President of the Institute of Transport Administration.

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

References
  1. "Mr Frank Marshall". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  2. "Obituary -- Lord Marshall of Leeds Kt". Law Society Gazette. 23 January 1991. Archived from the original on 20 April 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  3. "No. 45317". The London Gazette. 5 March 1971. p. 1917.
  4. "No. 48253". The London Gazette. 16 July 1980. p. 10119.
  5. "Lord Marshall of Leeds". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 23 July 1980. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  6. "Angela Widdows (obituary)". The Telegraph. 5 August 2005. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  7. "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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