Anthony Alfred Harmsworth Marlowe,QC (25 October 1904 – 8 September 1965) was a Britishbarrister and politician, who served as amember of parliament (MP) for 24 years.

Marlowe was the son ofThomas Marlowe, who was editor of theDaily Mail from 1899 to 1926 and also Chairman ofAssociated Newspapers. Thomas Marlowe gave his son the middle names 'Alfred Harmsworth' from the company's founderAlfred Harmsworth. He was sent toMarlborough College, from where he went on toTrinity College,Cambridge.

Anthony Marlowe was interested in the practice of law from an early age and was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1928. The next year, he married the daughter of well-known Barrister SirPatrick Hastings. He practised inLondon on the South-Eastern Circuit. At the time of the Munich crisis, Marlowe enlisted in the Army Officers' Reserve, and he joined up full-time during theSecond World War; he served as a Lieutenant-Colonel on the staff of the Judge Advocate-General. At the end of the war, Marlowe was appointed as aKing's Counsel and presided at several war crimes trials in Germany covering Nazi atrocities.

In November 1941, Marlowe had been elected unopposed as aConservativeMember of Parliament forBrighton, and kept the seat at the1945 general election.

The two-member Brighton constituency was very large, and was divided in three at the1950 general election, producing a safe Conservative seat inBrighton Pavilion, a potentially marginal seat inBrighton Kemptown, and an even safer Conservative seat inHove. Marlowe was chosen for this seat, with the other sitting memberWilliam Teeling standing in Pavilion. Marlowe found that Hove remained safely Conservative for the rest of his career.

Marlowe, who continued his legal career in parallel with his Parliamentary one, was a backbencher in theHouse of Commons. He enjoyed the freedom to criticise proposals by the Conservative government ofWinston Churchill, and in 1953 led a rebellion against the government's refusal to restore a 20-year-old cut in service officers' pensions. The rebels eventually won. Later in the 1950s Marlowe joined a group who protested about the effects of decontrolling private housing rents.

From 1960, 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 Marlowe was a right-winger, and he abstained on a vote to endorse theMacmillan government's bid to join theEuropean Economic Community.

Safely re-elected at the1964 general election, Marlowe suffered a mildheart attack at the end of March 1965. He took some time to recover and had to be taken in an ambulance to vote in a crunch debate on steel nationalisation that May. He then announced that, on medical advice, he would not fight the next election. In fact, Marlowe's health took a turn for the worse, and he resigned his seat in June, dying in September, aged 60.

• M. Stenton and S. Lees, "Who's Who of British MPs" Vol. IV (Harvester Press, 1981)
• Obituary,The Times, 10 September 1965.

• Hansard 1803–2005:contributions in Parliament by Anthony Marlowe

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