Kenneth Marks MP

Member of Parliament for Manchester Gorton
In office 2 November 1967 – 13 May 1983
Preceded by	Konni Zilliacus
Succeeded by	Gerald Kaufman
Majority	557 (1.3%)
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
In office April 1975 – December 1975
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	William Hamling
Succeeded by	John Tomlinson

Personal details
Born	Kenneth Marks (1920-06-15)15 June 1920
Died	13 January 1988(1988-01-13) (aged 67)
Political party	Labour
Education	Central High School, Manchester Manchester Academy (secondary school)
Occupation	Head Teacher

Kenneth Marks (15 June 1920 – 13 January 1988) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Marks was Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester Gorton from a 1967 by-election to 1983. From 1975 to 1979, he was a junior Environment minister.

He was educated at the Central High School, Manchester and Manchester Academy (secondary school). In 1955 he unsuccessfully contested Manchester Moss Side at the general election.^[1]

Before his by-election success, Marks served as a Labour councillor on the Denton Urban District Council, representing Denton West. Prior to entering parliament Marks was also a secondary school head teacher.^[2] He was also a member of the National Union of Teachers and served on its advisory committee for secondary schools.^[1] In parliament he was chairman of the Labour Party's social security group and vice chairman of its education group, as well as serving on the Select committee on Education and Science.^[1] From 1970 to 1971 he served as a whip.^[1]

Although reselected to fight Manchester Gorton at the 1983 general election, boundary changes substantially altered the constituency boundaries, with the largest part of the constituency, Denton and Audenshaw in Tameside Metropolitan Borough, merging with Reddish in Stockport Metropolitan Borough to form a new Denton and Reddish constituency. Gorton was included with much of the former Manchester Ardwick constituency, which was renamed Manchester Gorton.

As there were potentially three Labour MPs contesting two new seats, Marks, who was the senior of the three, stood down, allowing Stockport North's Andrew Bennett to inherit Denton and Reddish and Gerald Kaufman to move across from Ardwick to the new Gorton seat.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d The Times Guide to the House of Commons 1974. London: Times Newspapers Ltd. 1974. p. 181. ISBN 0-7230-0115-4.
^ Hansard, House of Commons, Vol. 796, Col. 1464, 26 February 1970.

Times Guide to the House of Commons 1979
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages ^{[self-published source]} ^{[better source needed]}

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