Education
Street Aloysius College, Glasgow
Street Mungo"s Academy, Glasgow
Street Mary"s Training College, Hammersmith (now in Twickenham)
London School of Economics, University of London.
Street Aloysius College, Glasgow
Street Mungo"s Academy, Glasgow
Street Mary"s Training College, Hammersmith (now in Twickenham)
London School of Economics, University of London.
He was the 7th and 9th Member of Parliament for Street Pancras (North). The constituency was created in 1885 and abolished in 1983, when it became part of the new constituency of Holborn and Street Pancras. lieutenant was a short-lived victory for him and, in a hung parliament, his seat was taken, on 29 October 1924 in the General Election by his Conservative successor, Ian Fraser (later Baron Fraser of Lonsdale).
He remained in politics, however, and was re-elected to the Street Pancras (North) seat once again in May 1929, holding the seat until 27 October 1931, when he fell prey to again to a hung parliament, the seat being retrieved by Ian Fraser for the Conservatives.
James was the son of William Marley (1869–1948) and Margaret Shannon (1874–1922). He was born in Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland and moved to London in 1917 to take up a teaching post at Street Dominic"s Boys" School in Hampstead (1917-1919).
The marriage between James Marley and Alice Louise Pilgrim took place in Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland on 16 May 1920. Marley died in Bromley, Kent in April 1954, aged 60.
Marley worked at the following schools in Scotland and London: 1915-1916 Street Francis Xavier"s School, Carfin, Motherwell, Scotland 1917-1919 Street Dominic"s Boys" School, Hampstead, London 1919:::::: Street Peter"s Italian Roman Catholic School, Herbal Hill, Holborn, London 1919-1923 Street Dominic"s Boys" School, Hampstead, London 1925-1929 Street Francis Boys" School, North Kensington, London In September 1931, Marley was amongst those who welcomed Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi at Folkstone when he visited the United Kingdom for the second Round Table conference.
In April 1929, the African-American concert singer Paul Robeson was refused entry to a London hotel. He wrote to Marley complaining about his treatment and the letter was made public, causing uproar in the United Kingdom and the United States. The matter led to a debate in Parliament later that year (October 1929) into racial discrimination by English hotels.
33rd United Kingdom Parliament. 35th United Kingdom Parliament.