Tuesday 11 August 2015

938 Marston Buszard



Constituency : Stamford  1880-85

Marston  took   Stamford  from  the  Tories.

Marston  was  educated  at  Rugby  and  Cambridge. He  became  a  barrister. He  stood  for  Stamford  in  1874.

Marston  opposed  the  scheme  for  a railway  into  Ennerdale  in  the  Lakes.

Maston  transferred  to  Rutland  in  1885  but  was  heavily  defeated. In  188g  he  stood  for  the  Liberal  Unionists  in  Rugby  but  lost.

Marston  was  Recorder  of  Derby  from  1890  to  1899. He  was  noted  for  an  unsentimental  application  of  Criminal  Law.

He  died  in  1921  aged  84.

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