Hilary Marquand

Hilary Adair Marquand PC (* 24. December 1901 ; † 6. November 1972 ) was a British economist , university lecturer and politician of the Labor Party .

Life

After attending Cardiff High School , he studied history and economics at University College Cardiff, and between 1926 and 1930 he was a lecturer in economics at the University of Birmingham . He then accepted a professorship for industrial relations at University College Cardiff in 1930 and taught there until 1945.

In addition, he headed two industrial surveys in South Wales in 1931 and 1936 and was on a research visit to the USA between 1932 and 1933 , where he researched industrial relations. He was later from 1938 to 1939 as visiting professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin again in the United States, before he was acting head (Principal) of the Board of Trade between 1940 and 1941 on his return . He was then from 1941 to 1942 Assistant Controller in the Department for Wales in the Ministry of Labor and then from 1943 to 1944 Labor Advisor in the Ministry of Production.

Marquand was elected to the House of Commons for the first time as a candidate for the Labor Party in the general election of July 5, 1945 , where he initially represented the constituency of Cardiff East until February 1950 , before he was elected to November 1961 after the general election of February 23, 1950 Middlesbrough East constituency interests .

After the Labor Party's victory in the general election in 1945, Prime Minister Clement Attlee first appointed him Secretary of State for Overseas Trade, before he was Minister for Pensions between 1948 and 1951 after serving as Paymaster General from 1948 to 1951. Most recently, he was Minister of Health in the Attlee government for a short period in 1951.

After leaving the government, he lectured on economic and industrial issues in India , Pakistan , Ceylon , the Caribbean and Finland and was also a member of the Council of Europe and the Western European Union (WEU) between 1957 and 1959 .

After leaving the House of Commons, he became Director of the International Institute for Labor Studies in Geneva in 1961 and was Deputy Chairman of the National Board for Prices and Incomes between 1965 and 1968.

His son David Marquand was also a Member of the House of Commons for the Labor Party, while his younger son Richard Marquand directed films such as The Needle and Return of the Jedi as a film director .

Publications

• The dynamics of industrial combinations: A study of conditions in Great Britain and the United States , London 1931
• Industrial relations in the United States of America: four lectures delivered during October, 1933, and one lecture delivered in April, 1932 , London 1934
• South Wales needs a plan , London 1936
• Organized labor in four continents , London 1939

Web links

• Hilary Marquand at Hansard (English)
• Publications (openlibrary.org)
• Newspaper article about Hilary Marquand in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .