Anthony (Tony) Freire Marreco (9 August 1915 – 4 June 2006) was a British barrister. He was Junior Counsel at the Nuremberg Trials, and later a founding director of Amnesty International. He was also known for his romantic liaisons, marrying four times and having numerous other affairs. August 9 is the 221st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (222nd in leap years), with 144 days remaining. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... June 4 is the 155th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (156th in leap years), with 210 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A barrister (advocate in Scotland and the Channel Islands, barrister-at-law in England, Wales, Ireland, and elsewhere) is a lawyer found in most Common law jurisdictions who principally, but not exclusively, represents litigants as their advocate before the courts of that jurisdiction. ... A German newspaper announces The Verdict in Nuremberg. ... Amnesty International logo Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is an international, non-governmental organization with the stated purpose of promoting all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. ...

Marreco was the only son of Geoffrey Marreco of St Mawes in Cornwall. Marreco's family were of Portuguese descent, although his great-grandfather had become a naturalised British subject. He was educated at Westminster School, where he met Mahatma Gandhi and T. E. Lawrence. He then attended RADA but was expelled when he missed lessons to attend the Derby. St. ... Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow) is a county at the extreme South-West of England on the peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar. ... Motto: Dat Deus Incrementum The Royal College of St. ... // Early life Gandhi and his wife Kasturba (1902) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born into a Hindu Modh family in Porbandar, Gujarat, India in 1869. ... T.E. Lawrence. ... Rada is the term for council or assembly borrowed by Polish from Middle High German Rat (council) and later passed into Czech, Ukrainian, and Belarusian languages. ... Epsom Derby, Théodore Géricault, 1821. ...

In the Second World War, Marreco was commissioned in the RNVR in 1940, serving as a Lieutenant Commander in the Fleet Air Arm until 1946. He served on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet, and on HMS Formidable. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... The Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) is the volunteer reserve force of the Royal Navy in the United Kingdom. ... In the Royal Navy, United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, a lieutenant commander (lieutenant-commander or Lt Cdr in the RN) is a commissioned officer superior to a lieutenant and inferior to a commander. ... The Fleet Air Arm is the operational group of the Royal Navy responsible for the operation of the aircraft on board their ships. ... The Home Fleet is the traditional name of the fleet of the Royal Navy that protects the United Kingdoms territorial waters. ... HMS Formidable was an Illustrious class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy during World War II. She was constructed by Harland & Wolff, Belfast and commissioned on 24 November 1940. ...

Marreco was called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 1941. The Attorney-General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, was a friend of his father, and he invited Marreco to become Junior Counsel in the British Delegation at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, also known as the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, in 1945 and 1946. He continued to serve as an adviser in post-War Germany, until 1949, but never returned to the bar. A barrister (advocate in Scotland and the Channel Islands, barrister-at-law in England, Wales, Ireland, and elsewhere) is a lawyer found in most Common law jurisdictions who principally, but not exclusively, represents litigants as their advocate before the courts of that jurisdiction. ... The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts of Justice in London, England, to which barristers belong and where they are called to the Bar. ... In most common law jurisdictions, the Attorney General or Attorney-General is the main legal adviser to the government, and in some jurisdictions may in addition have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions. ... The Nuremberg Trials is the general name for two sets of trials of Nazis involved in World War II and the Holocaust. ... Nuremberg (German: Nürnberg) is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. ... The Nuremberg Trials is the general name for two sets of trials of Nazis involved in World War II and the Holocaust. ...

Marreco stood as a Liberal Party candidate for Wells in the 1950 UK general election, and for Goole in the 1951 UK general election, but was unsuccessful both times. He was later a director of publishing company Weidenfeld and Nicolson and a banker with SG Warburg. He maintained homes at Port Hall, a Georgian house in County Donegal where he bred Charollais cattle, and in Shepherd Market in Mayfair in London. In later years, he retired to Aldbourne in Wiltshire. Marreco lent his support to Peter Benenson, the son of his neighbour in London, as when Benenson founded Amnesty International in 1960, but resigned as treasurer in 1971 when Amnesty refused to investigate reports of torture by British troops in Northern Ireland. The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party (the SDP) to form a new party which would become... Wells is a small city and civil parish in the Mendip district of Somerset. ... (Redirected from 1950 UK general election) The United Kingdom general election in 1950 was the first general election ever after a full term of a Labour government. ... Goole is a town and port located on the River Ouse in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in northeast England. ... (Redirected from 1951 UK general election) The 1951 election was held soon after the UK general election, 1950, which Labour won, but got an unusable majority. ... UBS AG NYSE: UBS, (SWX: CH0012032030) TYO: 8657 is a financial services company, headquartered in Basel and Zürich, Switzerland. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: coord}}}_N_{{{west coord}}}_W_{{{region:IE_type:city}}} {{{north coord}}}° N {{{west coord}}}° W Irish Grid Reference grid}}} {{{irish grid}}} Statistics Province: Ulster County: District: County Town: Lifford Code: DL Area: 4,841 km² Elevation: Population: Website: www. ... Mayfair is an area in the City of Westminster London, named after the fortnight-long May Fair that took place there from 1686 until it was banned in that location in 1764. ... For other uses, see London (disambiguation). ... Church of St. ... Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ... Peter Benenson Peter James Henry Solomon Benenson (July 31, 1921 – February 25, 2005) was a British lawyer and the founder of human rights group Amnesty International (AI). ... Amnesty International logo Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is an international, non-governmental organization with the stated purpose of promoting all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. ... Torture is any act by which severe discomfort, whether physical pain or psychological pressure, is intentionally inflicted on a person as a means of intimidation, a deterrent, revenge, a punishment, or as a method for the extraction of information or confessions (i. ... Dieu et mon droit (motto) (French for God and my right)2 Northern Irelands location within the UK Official Languages English, Irish, Ulster Scots Capital and largest city Belfast First Minister Office suspended Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Peter Hain MP Area  - Total Ranked 4th UK 13,843...

He was married four times, but also had numerous affairs with other women. He married Lady Ursula Manners, eldest daughter of the 9th Duke of Rutland in 1943, but they divorced in 1948. While serving in Germany, he became the lover of Lali Horstmann, then aged 66, the widow of Alfred Horstmann. He then became involved with Louise de Vilmorin through the late 1940s until 1951. He reestablished his relationship with Lali Horstmann in 1951, joining her in South America and remaining with her until she died in August 1954, when he inherited part of her fortune. He later took up with Loelia, Duchess of Westminster. The Most Noble John Henry Montaqu Manners, 9th Duke of Rutland (September 21, 1886–April 22, 1940) was the son of Henry Manners, 8th Duke of Rutland. ... Louise Levêque de Vilmorin (4 April 1904-26 December 1969) was a French woman of letters: novelist, poet, journalist. ...

He married again in 1955, to Brazilian Regina de Souza Coelho, but marriage was dissolved in 1961. He married for a third time later that year to Anne Wignall (née Acland-Troyte). She died in 1982, and he remarried his second wife in 2004.

References

• Obituary, The Daily Telegraph, 7 June 2006
• Obituary, The Times, 7 June 2006
• Obituary, The Independent, 24 June 2006