Author

John E. Marshall

John Evans Marshall was born in November 1932 at the family home in Chingford, on the outskirts of London. He was educated at Bancrofts School in Woodford, and was called up for National Service at the age of eighteen, serving for two years in the Royal Artillery, part of the time in Germany. He then read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Balliol, Oxford, where he distinguished himself in rowing.