Edmund Marshall

Edmund Ian Marshall (31 May 1940 – 5 October 2023) was a British politician and churchman. After beginning his career as a Liberal councillor in Wallasey in the 1960s, he joined the Labour Party and was elected Member of Parliament for Goole at a 1971 by-election. He held the seat until 1983. He later joined the Social Democratic Party (SDP), which merged with the Liberals in 1988 to become the Liberal Democrats.

Early life Marshall was born in Manchester on 31 May 1940. He was educated at Humberstone Foundation School (also known as Clee Grammar School for Boys for Boys, which became the comprehensive Matthew Humberstone School in September 1973) on Clee Road in Old Clee, Cleethorpes, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took double first class honours in mathematics and was awarded a University Junior Mathematical Prize in 1961. Marshall gained a PhD from the University of Liverpool in 1965. He became a mathematics university lecturer and a Methodist local preacher, also serving as Vice-president of the Methodist Conference in 1992.

Marshall left Parliament in 1983, when the Goole constituency was abolished in boundary changes. He stood to be the Labour candidate in the seat of Doncaster North, but lost the selection to Michael Welsh. and subsequently became a member of the Liberal Democrats. at the University of Bradford School of Management.

Personal life and death In 1969 he married Margaret Pamela Antill in Enfield. The couple had a daughter together and remained married until Antill's death in 2017. In 2019 he married Margaret Anthea Masding (née Martin Smith) in Oxford.

Marshall died on 5 October 2023, at the age of 83.