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{{Short description|British civil servant}}
'''Sir Robert Braithwaite Marshall''', [[Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath|KCB]], [[Member of the Order of the British Empire|MBE]] (10 January 1920 – 25 December 2000) was a British civil servant.
Born in [[Kent]] on 10 January 1920, the son of an officer in the [[Indian Civil Service]], he spent large parts of his childhood in Switzerland. He attended [[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge]], and spent the Second World War at [[Bletchley Park]] (described as "Foreign Office temp. appointment" in ''Who's Who'') where his fluency in French and German were put to good use in the RAF intelligence section. He was appointed an [[Member of the Order of the British Empire|MBE]] for his work.<ref name="times" />
Returning to Cambridge after the war to finish his degree, he graduated with a degree in economics and entered [[Civil Service (United Kingdom)|HM Civil Service]] as an official in the [[Ministry of Works (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Works]]. He moved to the [[Cabinet Office]] in 1950 and then returned to the Ministry of Works in 1953. He was subsequently at the [[Ministry of Aviation]] from 1962 to 1966, the [[Ministry of Power (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Power]] from 1966 to 1969 and the [[Minister of Technology|Ministry of Technology]] from 1969 to 1970. From 1970 to 1973, he was Secretary for Industry in the new [[Department of Trade and Industry (United Kingdom)|Department of Trade and Industry]]. He was then Second [[Permanent secretary|Permanent Secretary]] at the [[Department of the Environment (United Kingdom)|Department of the Environment]] from 1973 to 1978 and then Chairman of the [[National Water Council]] from 1978 to 1982. He was heavily involved in the establishment of [[WaterAid]] in 1981. He died on 25 December 2000.<ref name="times">Mary Ann Cameron, "Sir Robert Marshall", ''[[The Independent]]'', 2 February 2001, p. 6, accessed via [https://advance.lexis.com/api/permalink/96ec683d-086c-44b0-9a93-57c12854ced0/ Nexis] on 25 January 2022.</ref> He had been appointed a Companion of the [[Order of the Bath]] in 1968 and promoted to Knight Companion in 1971.<ref>[https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-180298 "Marshall, Sir Robert (Braithwaite)"], ''[[Who's Who (UK)|Who Was Who]]'' (online ed., [[Oxford University Press]], 2021). Retrieved 25 January 2022.</ref>
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