Frank Shaw

Background

He was born in Wakefield on 26 September 1915 and after attending Queen Elizabeth Grammar School there he studied law at Downing College, Cambridge.

Career

During the second world war he served in the Royal Tank Regiment, and after the war qualified as a solicitor. He was knighted in 1971 for "services to local government" and was created a life peer on 11 July 1980, taking the title Baron Marshall of Leeds, of Shadwell in the City of Leeds. He was considered to be "a grandee of the Conservative Party at the national level".

He was chairman of the Municipal Mutual Insurance Group of Companies from 1978, and of Dartford International Ferry Terminal Limited from 1987.

A director of the Leeds and Holbeck Building Society 1962–1968 and its president in 1967-1969 and 1977-1979. And a director of several other companies, including Barr & Wallace Arnold Trust Public Limited Company from 1953.

In 1978 he was commissioned to review the local government of London, in a climate where there was pressure to abolish the Greater London Council, and produced the Marshall Report. He was an honorary freeman of Leeds and a freeman of the City of London.

He died on 1 November 1990.

Achievements

• He married Mary Barr, daughter of the founder of Barr and Wallace Arnold coach holiday company, and they had two daughters, Angela and Virginia.

Membership

He was a member of Leeds City Council from 1960 and its leader 1967-1972.