Neil Marten
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Sir Harry Neil MartenPC(3 December 1916 – 22 December 1985) was a BritishConservative Partypolitician.
Born inLambeth,Marten was educated atRossall School.DuringWorld War IIhe was parachuted into France as part ofOperation Jedburghto work with theFrench resistanceand later served with theNorwegian resistance.He worked in theForeign Officefrom 1947 to 1957 and was asolicitorand shipping advisor.
Marten wasMember of ParliamentforBanburyfrom 1959 to 1983 and served as a junior aviation minister 1962–64 and Overseas Development minister underMargaret Thatcher.Marten was a leading opponent of theEuropean Economic Community.At the end of his time in Parliament, he was knighted on 6 January 1983.[1]He died in Dorset aged 69.
He was a director of the private shipping and aircraft companyDavies and Newmanand was in office when it was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1971 and had been associated with the company since 1962.[2]
A keenraconteur,Marten told a story of a tour he took around thePalace of Westminsterwith his Banbury constituents. Touring through the maze of corridors they turned a corner and metLord Hailsham,theLord Chancellor,wearing the full regalia of his office. Recognising his Parliamentary colleague in the midst of the Banbury constituents, Hailsham boomed, "Neil". Not needing to be told again, the tour party fell to its knees with some haste.
References
[edit]- ^"No. 49235".The London Gazette.14 January 1983. p. 593.
- ^Letter to Hambros from Mr. F. E. F. Newman, M.C., Chairman and Managing Director of Davies and Newman, dated 30 September 1971, published inThe Financial Timesdated 4 October 1971
Sources
[edit]- Times Guide to the House of Commons,1966 & 1979
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
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