George Croydon Marks, 1st Baron Marks
George Croydon Marks, 1st Baron Marks , known as Sir George Marks between 1911 and 1929, was an English engineer, patent agent and Liberal politician.
Marks was born in Eltham in Kent, the eldest of eight children of William Marks and Amelia Adelaide Croydon, of whom only four survived childhood. After attending a local private school, at agehe became apprenticed at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, where his father William was a foreman, and continued his general education parttime at the Royal Arsenal School. At 17, he won a Whitworth Exhibition for two years at Kings College, University of London.
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