William Francis Marwood Explained

Sir William Francis Marwood, (1863–1935)^[1] was an English civil servant who served as Permanent secretary to the Board of Trade.^{[2] [3]}

Life

Marwood was born in 1863 the son of George Marwood of Busby Hall in the North Riding of Yorkshire.^[4] Marwood was raised in an upper class landowning family of antiquity, he was educated at Tonbridge School and Trinity College, Cambridge.^[5] Marwood entered the civil service in 1886 as a Magistrate of the North Riding of Yorkshire, he then became assistant secretary to the Board of Trade (1909–1916), the Second Secretary to the Board of Trade (1916–1918) finally becoming Permanent Secretary in 1918.

Marwood's younger brother, Arthur, was a close personal friend of the author Ford Madox Ford who based the Parade's End characters of the Tietjens brothers on them.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sir William Francis Marwood. www.npg.org.uk. en. 2020-04-26.
2. Book: Page, William. The Victoria History of the County of York, North Riding, Volume 2. The St. Catherine Street Press. 1923. London.
3. Book: Walford, Edward. The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Dalcassian Publishing Company. 907.
4. Book: Burke, Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. 1879. London, Harrison. Harold B. Lee Library.
5. Book: Who's who, Volume 75. A. & C. Black. 1923. London.
6. Book: Mizener, Arthur. The saddest story : a biography of Ford Madox Ford. 1985. Carroll & Graf. 0-88184-187-0. Repr. New York. 370. 63480284.