British politician (1901?1972)
Hilary Adair Marquand
,
PC
(24 December 1901 ? 6 November 1972) was a British economist and
Labour Party
politician.
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Life and career
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He was born in
Cardiff
, the son of Alfred Marquand of
Saint Peter Port
,
Guernsey
, a clerk in a coal exporting company and his wife Mary nee Adair, who was of Scottish ancestry. He was educated at
Cardiff High School
and at
University College, Cardiff
(State Scholar) where he studied history and economics, completing his undergraduate studies in 1924. He subsequently spent two years in the United States as a
Rockefeller Foundation
Fellow: upon his return to the UK he was a lecturer in Economics at the
University of Birmingham
from 1926?1930, and Professor of Industrial Relations, University College, Cardiff, 1930?1945. At the time of his appointment in Cardiff he was 29 years old, making him the youngest Professor at a British university at the time.
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He was Director of Industrial Surveys of South Wales, 1931 and 1936, and Member of the Cardiff Advisory Committee
Unemployment Assistance Board
. He spent a year in the USA in the study of industrial relations, 1932?1933 and was Visiting Professor of Economics at
Wisconsin University
in 1938?1939. He was an Acting Principal at the
Board of Trade
, 1940?1941, and Deputy Controller, Wales Division, of the Ministry of Labour, 1941?1942 and Labour Adviser to the
Ministry of Production
, 1943?1944.
Although he was from a staunchly
Conservative
family, Marquand joined the Labour Party in 1920 and the
Fabian Society
in 1936. He was elected as
Member of Parliament
for
Cardiff East
from 1945?1950, where he defeated the then War Secretary
James Grigg
to take the seat,
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and for
Middlesbrough East
from 1950?1961.
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He was
Secretary for Overseas Trade
from 1945?1947;
Paymaster General
, 1947?1948;
Minister of Pensions
, 1948?1951; and
Minister of Health
, January?October 1951. He was appointed a
Privy Counsellor
in 1949.
Following the defeat for Labour at the
1951 general election
, Marquand was a prominent member of the
Shadow Cabinet
, serving as chief spokesman on pensions until 1959 and as chief spokesman on Commonwealth affairs under
Hugh Gaitskell
from 1959 to 1961.
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He undertook lecture tours for the
British Council
in
India
,
Pakistan
and
Ceylon
, 1952?1953, in
West Indies
, 1954 and 1959 and in
Finland
, 1957, and was a representative at the Assemblies of the
Council of Europe
and
Western European Union
, 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
.
Increasingly unhappy with
factional infighting within Labour
,
[1]
Marquand resigned his seat in
Parliament
in 1961, to take up the post of Director of the International Institute for Labour Studies, in
Geneva
. The consequent
by-election
was won by the Labour candidate
Arthur Bottomley
. He served in
Geneva
until 1965.
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Personal life
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Hilary Marquand married Rachel Eluned Rees, a schoolteacher, on 20 August 1929. Their daughter Diana Marquand is an environmental campaigner and was a senior social worker. Their son
David Marquand
was also an academic and was a Labour MP from 1966 to 1977, while a younger son
Richard Marquand
became a notable Hollywood director.
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Marquand died in 1972 at
Hellingly Hospital
, East Sussex, aged 70,
[1]
and was buried at
Cathays Cemetery
, Cardiff.
References
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Jones, John Graham (2008).
"Marquand, Hilary Adair"
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National Library of Wales, Dictionary of Welsh Biography
. Retrieved
21 March
2018
.
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Rayment, Leigh.
"House of Commons"
.
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
. Archived from the original on 7 June 2008
. Retrieved
19 April
2018
.
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