Jonathan Marks, Baron Marks of Henley-on-Thames

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The Right Honourable
The Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames
KC
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Official portrait, 2022
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
11 January 2011
Life peerage
Personal details
Born
Jonathan Clive Marks

(1952-10-19) 19 October 1952 (age 70)
Political party
Spouses
Sarah Ann Russell
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​
(m. 1982;dissolved 1991)​
Medina Cafopoulos
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(m. 1993)​
Children7
Education Harrow School
Alma mater

Jonathan Clive Marks, Baron Marks of Henley-on-Thames, KC (born 19 October 1952) is a British barrister and Liberal Democrat life peer in the House of Lords. [1]

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Biography

Marks was educated at Harrow School and University College, Oxford.

He was called to the bar by Inner Temple in 1975. During the 1980s and early 1990s he was a visiting lecturer in advocacy at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, the University of Mauritius and Sri Lanka Law College. He was appointed QC in 1995 and continued in practice as a barrister. He has been a Freeman of the City of London since 1975 and is a member of the Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers.

Marks joined the Social Democratic Party on its foundation in 1981. He contested Weston-super-Mare at the 1983 general election and Falmouth and Camborne at the 1987 general election as well as Cornwall and Plymouth at the 1984 European election.

Following the creation of the Liberal Democrats, Marks served as a member of the party's Committee for England in 1988–89. He was a member of the Federal Policy Committee from 2004 to 2015 and was Chair of the Liberal Democrat Lawyers Association from 2001 to 2007.

On 19 November 2010, it was announced that Marks would be created a life peer. He was created Baron Marks of Henley-on-Thames, of Henley-on-Thames in the County of Oxfordshire , on 11 January 2011 [2] and was introduced to the House of Lords on 13 January. [3] Marks has served on the Defamation Bill Joint Committee and for three years on the House of Lords Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee. In 2012 he was appointed Liberal Democrat Spokesperson on Justice in the House of Lords and in 2015 was appointed the Liberal Democrat Shadow Justice Secretary. He continues in post as the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson on Justice and speaks regularly on justice issues. He is the sponsor of a private members' bill to give rights to cohabiting couples on relationship breakdown and intestacy, the Cohabitation Rights Bill. (Cohabitation Rights Bill [HL]) [4]

Personal life

In 1982, Marks married Sarah Ann Russell, with whom he has one son and one daughter. Their marriage was dissolved in 1991, and Marks married Clementine Medina Cafopoulos in 1993. He has three sons and two daughters from his second marriage. [5]

Marks owned Holmwood, a country house in the Oxfordshire village of Binfield Heath, from 2008 to 2018. [6]

Arms

Coat of arms of Jonathan Marks, Baron Marks of Henley-on-Thames
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Crest
Two swords in saltire Argent perched and respectant on the blades thereof a Cornish chough Proper and martlet Or.
Escutcheon
Azure a Pegasus passant Argent maned tailed and unguled Or on a chief Argent three speedwell flowers Proper.
Supporters
Dexter a lion Sable pendant from the neck by a cord tied in the centre with a bow two arrows in saltire point downwards Argent sinister a stag Gules attired Or pendant from the neck by a cord tied with a bow a bugle horn also Or.
Motto
Justitia omnibus ('Justice for all') [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Surprisingly Jewish — that's the new-look Lib Dems". thejc.com. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
  2. ↑ "No. 59671". The London Gazette . 14 January 2011. p. 523.
  3. ↑ "Introduction: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) . Vol. 723. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Lords. 13 January 2011. col. 1527.
  4. ↑ ""Henley boy" made Life Peer". Henley Standard. Archived from the original on 18 May 2014.
  5. ↑ "Marks of Henley-On-Thames" . Who's Who . A & C Black. 2022. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U26632.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ↑ Lewis, Carol (9 November 2018). "A Georgian pile all in good taste". The Times . No. 72688. p. 94. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  7. ↑ Debrett's Peerage. 2019.
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