Sir William Francis Marwood
(1863-1935), Civil servant; (1863-1935), Civil servant
About Sir William Francis Marwood
Lived 1863 – 1935 (aged 71–72). Sir William Francis Marwood was a British civil servant.
Sir William Francis Marwood, (1863–1935) was an English civil servant who served as Permanent secretary to the Board of Trade.
Life Marwood was born in 1863 the son of George Marwood of Busby Hall in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Marwood was raised in an upper class landowning family of antiquity, he was educated at Tonbridge School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Marwood entered the civil service in 1886 as a Magistrate of the North Riding of Yorkshire, he then became assistant secretary to the Board of Trade (1909–1916), the Second Secretary to the Board of Trade (1916–1918) finally becoming Permanent Secretary in 1918.
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(1863-1935), Civil servant; (1863-1935), Civil servant
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Sir William Francis Marwood was born in 1863.
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Sir William Francis Marwood died in 1935.
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