Hilary Marquand

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Hilary Marquand

Hilary Adair Marquand PC (24 December 1901 – 6 November 1972) was a British Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

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politician.

He was educated at Cardiff High School and at University College, Cardiff

Cardiff University

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(State Scholar) where he studied history and economics. He was a lecturer in Economics at the University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham

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from 1926-1930, and Professor of Industrial Relations, University College, Cardiff, 1930-1945.

He was Director of Industrial Surveys of South Wales, 1931 and 1936, Member of the Cardiff Advisory Committee UAB.

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Hilary Adair Marquand PC (24 December 1901 – 6 November 1972) was a British Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

Cardiff University

University of Birmingham

Board of Trade

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, 1940-1941, and Deputy Controller, Wales Division, of the Ministry of Labour, 1941-1942 and Labour Adviser to the Ministry of Production

Ministry of Production

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, 1943-1944.

He was elected as Member of Parliament

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for Cardiff East

Cardiff East (UK Parliament constituency)

Cardiff East was a United Kingdom constituencies in Cardiff which returned one Member of Parliament to the British House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from United Kingdom general election, 1918 until it was abolished for the United Kingdom general election, 1950....
from 1945-1950, and for Middlesbrough East

Middlesbrough East (UK Parliament constituency)

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from 1950-1961. He was Secretary for Overseas Trade

Secretary for Overseas Trade

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from 1945-1957; Paymaster-General

Paymaster-General

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, 1947-1948; Minister of Pensions

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

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, 1948-1951; and Minister of Health, January-October 1951. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor

Privy Council of the United Kingdom

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in 1949.

He undertook lecture tours for the British Council

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in India

India

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, Pakistan

Pakistan

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and Ceylon, 1952-1953, in West Indies, 1954 and 1959 and in Finland

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, 1957, and was a representative at the Assemblies of the Council of Europe

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and Western European Union

Western European Union

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, 1957-1959. He was Deputy Chairman of the National Board for Prices and Incomes, 1965-1968. He was an Honorary Member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Marquand resigned his seat in Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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in 1961, to take up the post of Director of the International Institute for Labour Studies, in Geneva

Geneva

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. The consequent by-election

By-election

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was won by the Labour candidate Arthur Bottomley

Arthur Bottomley

Arthur George Bottomley, Baron Bottomley, Order of the British Empire Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament and minister....
.

His son David Marquand

David Marquand

David Ian Marquand FBA is a United Kingdom academic and former Labour Party Member of Parliament .Born in Cardiff, Marquand was educated at Emanuel School, Magdalen College, Oxford, St....
is also an academic and was a Labour MP from 1966 to 1977.