| 词条 | George Marks, 1st Baron Marks |
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| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable | name = The Lord Marks | honorific-suffix = CBE | party = Liberal/Labour | image = Lordmarks.jpg | office = Member of Parliament for North Cornwall {{small|Launceston (1906–18)}} | term_start = 8 February 1906 | term_end = 29 October 1924 | majority = | predecessor = John Fletcher Moulton | successor = Alfred Martyn Williams | birth_date = {{Birth date|1858|6|9|df=y}} | birth_place = Eltham, Kent | death_date = {{Death date and age|1938|9|24|1858|6|9|df=y}} | death_place = Poole, Dorset | nationality = English | spouse = Margaret Maynard | relations = | children = | residence = | alma_mater = King's College London | occupation = Civil engineer | profession = | religion = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}George Croydon Marks, 1st Baron Marks, CBE (9 June 1858 – 24 September 1938), known as Sir George Marks between 1911 and 1929,[1] was an English engineer, patent agent and Liberal (later Labour) politician.[2] Background and educationMarks was born in Eltham in Kent, the eldest of eight children of William Marks and Amelia Adelaide Croydon,[3] of whom only four survived childhood. After attending a local private school, at age 13 he became apprenticed at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, where his father William was a foreman, and continued his general education part-time at the Royal Arsenal School. At 17, he won a Whitworth Exhibition for two years at King's College, University of London. Business careerNoted by many{{by whom|date=April 2012}} as a disciple of Brunel, he joined Sir Richard Tangye's company, whose works were closely associated with funicular lifts. Marks was appointed head of the lift department, in which role he was in charge of the installation of the Saltburn Cliff Lift.[4] 1880, he set up a private practice in Birmingham and married Margaret Maynard;[4] they never had any children. In 1887 he formed a partnership with Dugald Clerk, forming the international intellectual property firm Marks & Clerk,[4] which now operates in 18 countries worldwide.[5] The firm became big enough to move its headquarters to London in 1893, with branches in Birmingham and Manchester. Developing a number of cliff railways and steep-incline tramcar systems, including the Matlock Cable Tramway in 1893, the Swansea Constitution Hill Incline Railway in 1896-8, commissions included the design of the new Gothic pavilion at the Royal Pier and the Cambrian Hotel (later the United Theological College), both in Aberystwyth. Marks continued his engineering practice alongside his patent interests. This included a partnership from 1890 with Sir George Newnes, which also concentrated on cliff railways, including an early stage development of Babbacombe Cliff Railway.[6] In 1911 he set up an office in New York in conjunction with Thomas Edison.[6] Marks was a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.[7] Political careerIn 1906, Marks was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the North-Eastern or Launceston Division of Cornwall in the Liberal landslide general election victory.[8] He received a knighthood in 1911,[9] served at the Ministry of Munitions during the First World War, and was awarded the CBE for work as a commissioner for the dilution of labour in 1917.[10] He held his Parliamentary seat until it was abolished at the 1918 general election, when he was returned for the new Northern Division of Cornwall. He held that seat until his defeat at the 1924 general election.[11] In 1929, he left the Liberals and joined Ramsay MacDonald's Labour Party. His almost immediate reward came when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Marks, of Woolwich in the County of Kent on 16 July 1929.[12] DeathMarks continued his engineering and business activities and died at his home in Poole, Dorset in September 1938, aged 80. As he had no children, his peerage died with him. Awards and memberships
References1. ^{{cite web|title=George Croydon Marks|url=https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/George_Croydon_Marks|website=Grace's Guide to British Industrial History|publisher=Grace's Guide|accessdate=20 October 2017}} 2. ^Michael R. Lane, ‘Marks, George Croydon, Baron Marks (1858–1938)’, rev., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 3. ^{{Citation | last = Pine | first = L.G. | author-link = | last2 = | first2 = | author2-link = | title = The New Extinct Peerage 1884–1971 | journal = Heraldry Today | volume = | issue = | pages = | date = | origyear = | year = 1972 | month = | url = http://thepeerage.com/p20085.htm | doi = | id = }} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/134/134687.html |title=Marks and Clerk LLP |publisher=Yahoo! Finance |accessdate=4 June 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622000221/http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/134/134687.html |archivedate=22 June 2011 |df=dmy }} 5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.marks-clerk.com/uk/attorneys/about/history.html |title=Our History |publisher=Marks and Clerk LLP |accessdate=4 June 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603041539/http://www.marks-clerk.com/uk/attorneys/about/history.html |archivedate=3 June 2011 |df=dmy }} 6. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|url=http://www.friendsofbabbacombecliffrailway.org.uk/2.html|title=A Brief History and Explanation of Technology Babbacombe Cliff Railway|author=David Cooper Bsc (Hons), MSc, IEng, FRSA, FIIE, FIDIagE, MCIBSE, LCGI.|publisher=Friends of the Babbacombe Cliff Railway|accessdate=4 June 2010|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101002014621/http://www.friendsofbabbacombecliffrailway.org.uk/2.html|archivedate=2 October 2010|df=dmy-all}} 7. ^Who was Who, OUP, 2007 8. ^{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 |origyear=1974 |edition= 2nd |year=1989 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-27-2 |page=240}} 9. ^{{London Gazette |issue=28512 |date=11 July 1911 |page=5167}} 10. ^{{London Gazette |issue=30250 |date=24 August 1917 |page=8796 |supp=y}} 11. ^{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 |origyear=1969 |edition= 3rd |year=1983 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-06-X |page=312}} 12. ^{{London Gazette |issue=33518 |date=19 July 1929 |page=4762 }} External links
| title = Member of Parliament for Launceston | years = 1906–1918 }}{{s-non | reason = Constituency abolished }}{{s-new | constituency}}{{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for North Cornwall | years = 1918–1924 }}{{s-aft | after = Alfred Martyn Williams }}{{s-reg|uk}}{{s-new | creation}}{{s-ttl | title = Baron Marks | years = 1929–1938 }}{{s-non | reason = Extinct }}{{end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Marks, Croydon}} 18 : People from Eltham|Alumni of King's College London|English engineers|Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies|Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Cornwall|UK MPs 1906–10|UK MPs 1910|UK MPs 1910–18|UK MPs 1918–22|UK MPs 1922–23|UK MPs 1923–24|Labour Party (UK) hereditary peers|Commanders of the Order of the British Empire|Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom|English knights|Works by George Croydon Marks|1858 births|1938 deaths |
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