Frank Marshall, Baron Marshall of Leeds explained

The Lord Marshall of Leeds
Office:Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Term Start:11 July 1980
Term End:1 November 1990
Life Peerage
Office1:Leader of Leeds City Council
Term Start1:1967
Term End1:1972
Predecessor1:Unknown
Successor1:Sir Albert King
Office2:Leeds City Councillor
for Allerton Ward
Term Start2:1962
Term End2:1968
Predecessor2:M. Mustill
Successor2:Ward abolished
Birth Name:Frank Shaw Marshall
Birth Date:1915 9, df=y
Birth Place:Wakefield, England
Party:Conservative
Spouse:Mary Barr
Children:2
Education:Queen Elizabeth Grammar School
Alma Mater:Downing College, Cambridge

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.

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 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.[3] He was considered to be "a grandee of the Conservative Party at the national level".

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. 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.[4] He was an honorary freeman of Leeds and a freeman of the City of London.[5]

He married Mary Barr, daughter of the founder of Barr and Wallace Arnold coach holiday company, and they had two daughters, Angela and Virginia. His daughters donated the glass Angel Screen by Sally Scott to Leeds Minster in 1997, in memory of both their parents.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mr Frank Marshall. Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 4 September 2012.
  2. Web site: Obituary -- Lord Marshall of Leeds Kt. https://archive.today/20130420224519/http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/obituary-lord-marshall-leeds-kt. dead. 20 April 2013. Law Society Gazette. 4 September 2012. 23 January 1991.
  3. Web site: Lord Marshall of Leeds. Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 23 July 1980. 4 September 2012.
  4. Web site: White. Jerry. The Greater London Council,1965-1986. Greater London: 50 years of reform and government. London School of Economics. 4 September 2012. 5. 2008.
  5. Web site: Marshall of Leeds, Baron. Who's Who 2012 and Who Was Who. 4 September 2012. Available online to subscribers and also in print
  6. News: Angela Widdows (obituary). 4 September 2012. The Telegraph. 5 August 2005.