Edward Marjoribanks (Conservative politician)

Edward Marjoribanks (* February 14, 1900, † April 2, 1932 ) was a British politician ( Conservative Party ) and writer.

Life and work

Marjoribanks was a nephew of the politician Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth. Marjoribanks studied at Oxford University. Unlike his liberal uncle Marjoribanks was a member of the Conservative Party for which he elected to the British House of Commons as MP for the constituency Eastborune in East Sussex in the parliamentary elections of 1929. After his early death in 1932 John Slater was determined in a by-election as his successor. Despite his short political career Marjoribanks still owns a certain notoriety stemming from his work as a writer. Between 1927 and 1932 he wrote several, mainly biographical works. In addition, some originated, formal masterful poems.

Works

  • A Decade. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1927. ( Privately printed; poems in English and Greek )
  • The life of Sir Edward Marshall Hall. Gollancz, 1929. ( Foreword by Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead )
  • For the Defence the Life of Sir Edward Marshall Hall. Macmillan, New York 1929.
  • Poems. Chapman & Hall, London, 1931.
  • The Life of Lord Carson Volume 1, Gollancz, 1932. ( Volume 2 and 3 were completed by Ian Colvin ).
  • Famous Trials of Marshall Hall. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1950. ( Condensed version of "The Life of Sir Edward Marshall Hall " )
  • Member of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)
  • Briton
  • Born 1900
  • Died in 1932
  • Man
  • Conservative Party Member
  • Politicians ( 20th century)
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