Arthur Marshall (1910-1989) was a British writer and broadcaster, born in Surrey in the UK. Most known as a team-leader on the BBC's Call My Bluff. A long-running British panel game on which celebrity teams played a game based on word definitions. (He took over from Patrick Campbell.) He appeared on radio and TV occasionally and published books of humorous pieces among other writings. Best known of these was his skits on the life and antics of public schoolgirls. 1910 in topic: Arts Architecture- Art- Film- Literature- Music- Television Science and technology Aviation- Rail transport- Science Other topics Australia- Canada- Ireland- South Africa- Sport Births- Deaths Lists of leaders: State leaders - Religious leaders 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Surrey is a county in southern England, one of the Home Counties. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was formed in 1927 by means of a royal charter. ... Call My Bluff is a British game show between two teams of three contestants. ... Patrick Gordon Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy (June 6, 1913 - November 9, 1980), better known simply as Patrick Campbell, was a British journalist, humorist and television personality. ...

He was also a newspaper and magazine columnist, writing for The Sunday Telegraph in the 1970s and 1980s, and enjoying an association with the New Statesman which began in 1935 when he wrote his first of many Christmas reviews of books for girls, and ended in 1981 when he was sacked from its "First Person" column, which he had been writing since the beginning of 1976, allegedly for being overtly sympathetic to Margaret Thatcher. This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ... The New Statesman is a left-of-centre political weekly published in London. ... The Right Honourable Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925), born Roberts, is a British stateswoman and was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, also Leader of the Opposition (UK) from 1975, and the only woman to date to...

He went to Oundle School and then Cambridge University and wanted to be an actor. As he could not find enough acting work he became a school teacher. In the fifties he began work in the theatre in London as a script-writer and also began having his humorous books published. As he became more well known he appeared on radio and TV (although his first radio broadcast had been in 1934), and then in the 1970s began his time on Call My Bluff, which continued until shortly before his death. Oundle School is a public school, at Oundle in Northamptonshire, England. ... REDIRECT [1] ... St. ...

References:

• Bailey, Paul (2001). Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. London: Hamish Hamilton. ISBN 0241134552.