Alfred Ernest Marples, Baron Marples, PC (9 December 1907 – 6 July 1978) was a British Conservative politician who served as Postmaster General (1957–1959) and Minister of Transport (1959–1964).
As Postmaster General, he oversaw the introduction of the Premium Bond scheme and of postcodes. His period as Minister of Transport was controversial. He both oversaw significant road construction (he opened the first section of the M1 motorway) and the closure of a considerable portion of the national railway network with the Beeching cuts. His involvement in the road construction business Marples Ridgway, of which he had been managing director, led to concerns regarding possible conflict of interest. In later life, Marples was elevated to the peerage before fleeing to Monaco at very short notice to avoid prosecution for tax fraud.
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Alfred ErnestMarples, Baron Marples, PC (9 December 1907 – 6 July 1978) was a British Conservative politician who served as Postmaster General (1957–1959)...
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Conservative Transport Minister ErnestMarples had been a Marples, Ridgway shareholder. To avoid a conflict of interest Marples undertook to sell his controlling...
Marples Ridgway was a British civil engineering company founded in 1948 by engineer Reginald Ridgway and accountant ErnestMarples. Marples served as...
by ErnestMarples to become a member of an advisory group; Smith declined but recommended Richard Beeching in his place, a suggestion that Marples accepted...
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1967. In the early-1960s, the British Ministry of Transport, headed by ErnestMarples, was looking for a way to make pedestrian crossings safer under increasingly...
from ICI in 1959, was asked by the Conservative Minister of Transport, ErnestMarples, to become a member of an advisory group on the financial state of the...
area and three numbers to identify the individual address. On 28 July ErnestMarples, the Postmaster General, announced that Norwich had been selected, and...
December 1955 Prime Minister Winston Churchill Anthony Eden Preceded by ErnestMarples Succeeded by Enoch Powell Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal...
Hancock (1874-1924), former professional footballer[citation needed] ErnestMarples (1907-1978), Conservative politician Arthur Lowe (1915-1982), actor...
Wallasey, Merseyside in 1974, succeeding the former Cabinet minister ErnestMarples. Chalker held a number of government posts, including spells as Parliamentary...
buildings. The plans were permanently rejected by Sir Keith Joseph and ErnestMarples; the key reason given was that Holford's scheme only allowed for a 20%...
September 1960 under the direction of the-then Minister of Transport, ErnestMarples, under powers in the Road Traffic Act 1956. The test was originally...
offences like illegal parking and obstruction" to the Home Secretary ErnestMarples and his professional colleagues. He took the idea from a scheme already...
to September 1962 between Leasowe and Rhyl in North Wales. Local MP ErnestMarples was responsible as Minister of Transport (1959–64) for introducing parking...
ISBN 978-1-80282-119-2. Brandon, David; Upham, Martin (30 March 2022). ErnestMarples: The Shadow Behind Beeching. Pen and Sword Transport. p. 200. ISBN 978-1-5267-6021-0...
Minister Term of office Political party Prime Minister ErnestMarples 14 October 1959 16 October 1964 Conservative Harold Macmillan Alec Douglas-Home Thomas...
seat at the 1945 general election but was defeated by the Conservative ErnestMarples. Reakes was a magistrate for nearly twenty years and later became chairman...
15 mi (24 km) A1(M) motorway bypass cost £6 million and was opened by ErnestMarples in 1961. The former route is now the A638 and partly the A614 to Blyth...
4.72 m (15.5 ft) in height. During construction, transport minister ErnestMarples clarified that unlike the Dartford Tunnel, also then under construction...
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