Shadow Cabinet positions
Opposition Chief Spokesman on Commonwealth Affairs
In office 1959–1961
Leader	Hugh Gaitskell
Shadowing	The Lord Ismay The Marquess of Salisbury Philip Cunliffe-Lister Alec Douglas-Home Duncan Sandys
Opposition Chief Spokesman on Pensions
In office 1951 – 1959

Leader

Clement Attlee
Hugh Gaitskell

Shadowing

Derick Heathcoat-Amory
Osbert Peake
John Boyd-Carpenter

Personal details

Born

Hilary Adair Marquand
24 December 1901
Cardiff, Wales

Died

6 November 1972

Political party

Labour

Spouse(s)

Rachel Eluned Rees (m. 1929)

Alma mater

University College, Cardiff

Constituency abolished

Hilary Adair Marquand, PC (24 December 1901 – 6 November 1972) was a British Labour Party politician.

He was the son of Alfred Marquand of St Peterport Guernsey & his wife Mary née Adair. He was educated at Cardiff High School and at University College, Cardiff (State Scholar) where he studied history and economics. He was a lecturer in Economics at the University of Birmingham from 1926–1930, and Professor of Industrial Relations, University College, Cardiff, 1930–1945.

He was Director of Industrial Surveys of South Wales, 1931 and 1936, Member of the Cardiff Advisory Committee UAB. He spent a year in the USA in the study of Industrial Relations, 1932–1933 and was Visiting Professor of Economics at Wisconsin University 1938–1939. He was an Acting Principal at the Board of Trade, 1940–1941, and Deputy Controller, Wales Division, of the Ministry of Labour, 1941–1942 and Labour Adviser to the Ministry of Production, 1943–1944.

He was elected as Member of Parliament for Cardiff East from 1945–1950, and for Middlesbrough East from 1950–1961. He was Secretary for Overseas Trade from 1945–1947; Paymaster-General, 1947–1948; Minister of Pensions, 1948–1951; and Minister of Health, January–October 1951. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1949.

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