Frank Marshall, Baron Marshall of Leeds

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Frank Shaw Marshall, Baron Marshall of Leeds (* 26. September 1915 in Wakefield , West Yorkshire , † 1. November 1990 ) was a British lawyer and politician of the Conservative Party , the 1967-1972 chairman of the city council of Leeds ( Leeds City Council ) and in 1980 when Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

Solicitor and local politician

Marshall graduated after visiting the Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Wakefield to study law at Downing College of the University of Cambridge . During the Second World War , after training in an Officer Cadet Training Unit (OCTU) , he began his military service on August 2, 1941 as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Tank Regiment . After the end of the war, he joined the law firm Hepworth & Chadwick in Leeds as a solicitor , where he was most recently a senior partner.

Marshall began his political career in local politics when he was elected a member of the Leeds City Council in 1960 as a representative of the Conservative Party . Most recently he was chairman of the Leeds City Council between 1967 and 1972 and chairman of the Association of Municipal Corporations from 1968 to 1973 . For his services in local politics, he was beaten on January 1, 1971 to the Knight Bachelor and from then on carried the suffix "Sir".

Chairman of Municipal Mutual Insurance and Member of the House of Lords

On November 12, 1970, Marshall became a member of the board of trustees of the insurer Municipal Mutual Insurance Ltd , an insurance company founded by various local authorities on March 13, 1903, which insured numerous public institutions such as city councils, police authorities and fire departments in the following decades. On July 1, 1978 he finally became chairman of the board of trustees of MIM and in the following years contributed to the fact that the company grew to over thirty subsidiaries.

After his resignation from the city council, Marshall also took on numerous tasks and was entrusted, among other things, with the preparation of a regulation for a third London airport in Foulness on the Essex coast. After his ruling was ultimately rejected, he chaired a committee to study the future of London's city council. In addition, he was Vice-Chairman of the Center for Environmental Studies and a member of the Resettlement Authority of Uganda ( Uganda Resettlement Board ). He has also served on the Boards of Directors of the University of Bradford , the University of Buckingham , the University of Leeds and the University of York and served on the Docklands Light Railway committee .

By a letters patent dated July 11, 1980, Marshall was raised to the nobility under the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Marshall of Leeds , of Shadwell in the City of Leeds , and belonged to the House of Lords until his death as a member.

Its official launch ( House of Lords ) on July 23, 1980, supported by Peter Thorneycroft , and Janet Young . During his tenure in the House of Lords, he was instrumental in the passage of the Channel Tunnel Act 1987 , the law that allowed the construction of the Eurotunnel between Great Britain and France .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 35250, HMSO, London, August 15, 1941, p. 4794 ( PDF , accessed February 8, 2014, English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 45317, HMSO, London, March 15, 1971, p. 1917 ( PDF , accessed February 8, 2014, English).
  3. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 48212, HMSO, London, June 13, 1980, p. 1 ( PDF , accessed February 8, 2014, English).
  4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 48253, HMSO, London, July 16, 1980, p. 10119 ( PDF , accessed February 8, 2014, English).
  5. ^ Entry ( memento of March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in the Hansard (July 23, 1980)
personal data
SURNAME Marshall, Frank, Baron Marshall of Leeds
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marshall, Frank Shaw, Baron Marshall of Leeds (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Wakefield , West Yorkshire
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1990