Background
SIEFF, Marcus Joseph Sieff was born on July 2, 1913. Son of late Lord Sieff.
SIEFF, Marcus Joseph Sieff was born on July 2, 1913. Son of late Lord Sieff.
Manchester Grammar School, Saint Paul’s, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Served War 1939-1945, Resident Advisor Joined Marks and Spencer Limited., 1935, Director 1954, Assistant ManagerDirector 1963, Vice-Chairman 1965, Jt. Manager Director 1967-1983, Deputy Chairman 1971, Chair, Marks and Spencer Public Limited Company 1972-1984, President 1984-1985.
Honorary President since 1985. Chairman Export Committee Israel 68).
Honorary President, Jt.
Israel Appeal. Vice President, Policy Studies Institute. Executive since 1975.
President, Anglo-Israeli Chamber of Commerce, since 1975.
Chairman First Institute Bank of Israel Trust October since 1983. Director North. M. Rothschild & Sons since 1983. Chair, (non-executive) The Independent since 1986.
Chairman Newspaper Publishing October since 1986.
Trustee, National Portrait Gallery since 1986. Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. 1984.
Honorary Doctor of Laws (Saint Andrews) 1983, (Reading) 1985, (Leicester) 1988, Honorary Doctor (Babson College, Massachusetts) 1984.
British National Export Council 1965-1971.
Married 1st Rosalie Fromson in 1937 (dissolved in 1947), one son. Married 2nd Elsa Gosen in 1951 (dissolved in 1953). Married 3rd Brenda Beith in 1956 (dissolved in 1962), one daughter
Married 4th Mistress
Pauline L. Moretzki (nbe Spatz) in 1963, one daughter.