Frank Marshall, Baron Marshall of Leeds
{{Short description|British politician (1915–1990)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix =
| name = The Lord Marshall of Leeds
| honorific-suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KBE}}
| image = Frank, Baron Marshall of Leeds.jpg
| caption = Marshall taking his seat in the House of Lords (1980)
| 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 = {{Birth date|df=y|1915|9|26}}
| birth_place = Wakefield, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1990|1|11|1915|9|26}}
| death_place =
| party = Conservative
| spouse = Mary Barr
| children = 2
| residence =
| education = Queen Elizabeth Grammar School
| alma_mater = Downing College, Cambridge
| awards =
| website =
}}
Frank Shaw Marshall, Baron Marshall of Leeds KBE (26 September 1915 – 1 November 1990){{cite web|title=Mr Frank Marshall|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-frank-marshall/index.html|work=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)|access-date=4 September 2012}} 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.{{cite web|title=Obituary -- Lord Marshall of Leeds Kt|url=http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/obituary-lord-marshall-leeds-kt|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130420224519/http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/obituary-lord-marshall-leeds-kt|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 April 2013|work=Law Society Gazette|accessdate=4 September 2012|date=23 January 1991}}
He was knighted in 1971{{London Gazette |issue=45317 |date=5 March 1971 |page=1917}} 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.{{London Gazette |issue=48253 |date=16 July 1980 |page=10119}}{{cite web|title=Lord Marshall of Leeds|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1980/jul/23/lord-marshall-of-leeds|work=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)|date=23 July 1980|access-date=4 September 2012}} 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.{{cite web|last=White|first=Jerry|title=The Greater London Council,1965-1986|url=http://www2.lse.ac.uk/geographyAndEnvironment/research/london/events/HEIF/HEIF2_06-08/greaterLondon/white.pdf|work=Greater London: 50 years of reform and government|publisher=London School of Economics|accessdate=4 September 2012|page=5|year=2008}} He was an honorary freeman of Leeds and a freeman of the City of London.{{cite web|title=Marshall of Leeds, Baron|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U166859/MARSHALL_OF_LEEDS?index=1&results=QuicksearchResults&query=0|work=Who's Who 2012 and Who Was Who|accessdate=4 September 2012}} Available online to subscribers and also in print
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.{{cite news|title=Angela Widdows (obituary)|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1495524/Angela-Widdows.html|accessdate=4 September 2012|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=5 August 2005}}
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Category:Alumni of Downing College, Cambridge
Category:British Army personnel of World War II
Category:Conservative Party (UK) life peers
Category:People educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield
Category:Royal Tank Regiment officers
Category:Life peers created by Elizabeth II
Category:Politicians from Wakefield
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