13 Facts About Anthony Marlowe

Thomas Anthony Marlowe gave his son the middle names 'Alfred Harmsworth' from the company's founder Alfred Harmsworth.

Anthony Marlowe was sent to Marlborough College, from where he went on to Trinity College, Cambridge.

Anthony Marlowe was interested in the practice of law from an early age and was called to the Bar in 1928.

At the time of the Munich crisis, Anthony Marlowe enlisted in the Army Officers' Reserve, and he joined up full-time during the Second World War; he served as a Lieutenant-Colonel on the staff of the Judge Advocate-General.

In November 1941, Anthony Marlowe had been elected unopposed as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Brighton, and kept the seat at the 1945 general election.

Anthony Marlowe was chosen for this seat, with the other sitting member William Teeling standing in Pavilion.

Anthony Marlowe found that Hove remained safely Conservative for the rest of his career.

Anthony Marlowe, who continued his legal career in parallel with his Parliamentary one, was a backbencher in the House of Commons.

Anthony Marlowe enjoyed the freedom to criticise proposals by the Conservative government of Winston Churchill, and in 1953 led a rebellion against the government's refusal to restore a 20-year-old cut in service officers' pensions.

Later in the 1950s Anthony Marlowe joined a group who protested about the effects of decontrolling private housing rents.

From 1960, Anthony Marlowe pressed for private healthcare patients to be given the right to buy prescription drugs at the same prices as those charged to NHS patients.

In general Anthony Marlowe was a right-winger, and he abstained on a vote to endorse the Macmillan government's bid to join the European Economic Community.

Safely re-elected at the 1964 general election, Anthony Marlowe suffered a mild heart attack at the end of March 1965.