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British politician

John Leslie Marshall (born 19 August 1940) is a British Conservative politician.

Early career

Marshall was educated at Harris Academy in Dundee, Glasgow Academy and the University of St Andrews. He then became a university lecturer. He attempted to enter Parliament a number of times before he was successful. In 1964 and 1966 he contested Dundee East, but was beaten by the Labour incumbent George Thomson, the first time as a Liberal National, and the second time in Conservative colours. He fought Lewisham East in the February 1974 general election, coming second to Labour's Roland Moyle.

Marshall served as a councillor in Aberdeen from 1968 until 1970 and then in Ealing from 1971 until 1986.

He was MEP for London North from 1979 to 1989.

Parliamentary career

Marshall lost to Michael Portillo in the selection for the 1984 Enfield Southgate by-election, but was later selected for Hendon South in the London Borough of Barnet, and was elected as the Member of Parliament for that seat at the 1987 general election. Marshall served as PPS to Tony Newton, when Newton was Leader of the House of Commons.

After the 1992 general election, the Boundary Commission recommended that the four Barnet seats be reduced to three. Sir Sydney Chapman was retained as the candidate for the Chipping Barnet seat, the only one not being abolished, and John Gorst, the sitting MP for Hendon North, was selected to contest the new Hendon constituency. Marshall was therefore pitched together with Hartley Booth, the MP for Finchley, in trying to win the nomination for the new seat of Finchley and Golders Green. Both MPs put a great deal of effort into the fight, hiring minibuses to ensure all their supporters got to the selection meeting; the contest became bitter when Booth accused Marshall of "signing up the dead and the dying" as Conservative members in order to boost his chanc

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Austin John Marshall, record producer, folk-revival ideas man, lyricist and songwriter, performance poet and muralist, created, nurtured or acted as cultural midwife to many strands of art. His fingerprints are all over Shirley Collins & Davy Graham's folk roots, new routes, Shirley & Dolly Collins' magnum opus Anthems in Eden, Ultravox!'s pre-Midge Ure incarnation Tiger Lily and English songwriter Steve Ashley's groundbreaking Stroll On. He also contributed footage to Peter Neal's Jimi Hendrix film Rainbow Bridge (1972) and to the Incredible String Band's film Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending (1970).

He was the first of two children born to Austin Frederick, who was shot down over the North Sea, and Julie Marshall. After studying at the Slade and the London College of Printing he was assistant art editor at Vogue before advancing to The Observer.

In early 1960 Shirley Collins returned to England, after accompanying the folklorist Alan Lomax on a collecting trip of the southern US states. Before sailing to America in 1959 the folk singer had recorded a batch of tracks with the broadcaster and barn-dance musician Peter Kennedy for the English Folk Dance and Song Society. In her absence some emerged on the 1960 albums A Jug of Punch – Broadside Ballads Old and New, A Pinch of Salt – British Sea Songs Old and New and Rocket Along – New Ballads on Old Lines. All three had a freelancing Marshall's cartoon-like cover artwork. Not long after her return they met at the Kennedy home. They married in 1961.

It was Marshall's idea to unite her and the stringed-instrument innovator Davey Graham for the important yet ultimately ill-starred folk roots, new routes (1964). "An awkward pun," Marshall wrote of the title in Folk Scene's March 1965 issue, "but an accurate description of as varied a mixture that can have ever been served up on one platter."

Austin John Marshall (30 March 1937 – 3 November 2013) was an English record producer, songwriter, poet and graphic designer, most notable for his work in developing folk music in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s. Writer Karl Dallas described him as "one of the great unsung pioneers of contemporary British folk song". From 1961 to 1970 he was married to English folk singer Shirley Collins.

Biography

He was born in Leicester. His father, an RAF pilot, died in the Second World War, and he was educated at Christ's Hospital school in West Sussex. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and the London College of Printing, becoming a graphic designer whose work was published in Vogue, The Observer and elsewhere.

In 1960 he met the singer Shirley Collins when he was designing the cover for the compilation album Rocket Along, a collection of folk songs in which she was featured; they married the following year. Marshall continued to work at The Observer, and began taking an interest in traditional music. In 1964 he arranged for Collins to work with innovative guitarist Davy Graham on their joint album Folk Roots, New Routes, conceiving the album's approach and writing its liner notes. He then worked as a record producer, art director and songwriter on Collins' albums The Sweet Primeroses (1967), The Power of the True Love Knot (1968), Anthems in Eden (1969), and Love, Death and the Lady (1970), on some of which Collins sang with her sister Dolly. He also wrote lyrics for the song "Dancing At Whitsun", first published by Dallas and sung by Collins on Anthems in Eden and later covered by Tim Hart on the 1971 album Summer Solstice.

He and Collins divorced in 1970, but he continued to work both as a producer and graphic designer with other performers including the folk rock bands The Wooden O and Spirogyra, and