Arthur Marshall (British politician)

Sir Arthur Harold Marshall, KBE (2 August 1870 – 18 January 1956) was an English Liberal Party politician.

Arthur Harold Marshall was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, a son of Methodist Minister Rev.

[4] In 1904 Marshall qualified as a barrister, being called to the Bar by Gray's Inn.

[9][4] In December 1918 he lost his seat to the Unionist candidate who had the endorsement of the wartime Coalition Government.

In 1920 when a Conservative vacancy occurred in Ashton-under-Lyne, the town of his birth, he became the Liberal candidate for the by-election where he came third.

At the next general election in 1922 he stood in Huddersfield where he had the support of Huddersfield Liberal Association, and the defending member stood as a National Liberal with the support of David Lloyd George and the local Conservatives.