Edmund Marshall

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Edmund Ian Marshall (born 31 May 1940) is a British politician and Churchman.

Marshall was educated at Humberstone Foundation School, Cleethorpes and Magdalen College, Oxford,where he took double first class honours in mathematics and was awarded a University Junior Mathematical Prize in 1961. He became a mathematics university lecturer and a Methodist local preacher. He served as Vice-president of the Methodist Conference in 1992.

Marshall was a Liberal Party councillor on Wallasey Borough Council 1963-65 and parliamentary candidate for Louth in 1964 and 1966, but joined the Labour Party in 1967.

In a 1971 by-election, Marshall was elected Member of Parliament for Goole. From 1976-79, he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Home Secretary, and as Chair of the Select Committee on Trade and Industry. He left Parliament in 1983, when the Goole constituency was abolished in boundary changes. In 1985 Marshall transferred to the Social Democratic Party and subsequently became a member of the Liberal Democrats. He advises the Church of England Bishop of Wakefield on ecumenical matters, and since 2000 has been a member of the General Synod of the Church of England.

Marshall is the author of two published books: Parliament and the Public (Macmillan 1982) and Business and Society (Routledge 1993).