Anthony Marlowe

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

Marlowe was the son of Thomas Marlowe, who was editor of the Daily Mail from 1899 to 1926 and also Chairman of Associated Newspapers. Thomas Marlowe gave his son the middle names 'Alfred Harmsworth' from the company's founder Alfred Harmsworth. He 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 (Inner Temple) in 1928. The next year, he married the daughter of well-known Barrister Sir Patrick Hastings. He practised in London 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 the Second 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 a King's Counsel and presided at several war crimes trials in Germany covering Nazi atrocities.

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

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