Background
MARSHALL, Peter was born on July 30, 1924 in Reading. Son of late R. H. and Winifred Marshall.
MARSHALL, Peter was born on July 30, 1924 in Reading. Son of late R. H. and Winifred Marshall.
Tonbridge School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Served Her Majesty Foreign (later Diplomatic) Service 1949-1983. Aide to British Ambassador, Washington, District of Columbia 1952-1956. Head of Chancery, Baghdad 1961, Bangkok 1962-1964, Paris 1969-1971.
Deputy Director Treasury Centre for Administration Studies 1965-1966.
Counsellor, United Kingdom Mission, Geneva 1966-1969. Head, Financial Relations Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1971-1973, Assistant Under-Secretary of State 1973-1975.
Minister, United Kingdom Mission to United Nations, New York 1975-1979. Permanent Representative U.K Mission, Geneva 1979-1983.
Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General (Economics) 198388.
Chairman Royal Commonwealth Society since 1988, Commonwealth Trust since 1989. Honorary Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 1989. President Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford since 1990.
Married 1st Patricia R. Stoddart in 1957 (died in 1981). Married 2nd Judith Maine Miller) Tomlin 1989.