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 Sir Paul Roderick Clucas Marshall (born 2 August 1959) is a British investor.

According to The Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, Marshall is worth £630 million.^[2]

Paul Roderick Clucas Marshall was born on 2 August 1959 in Ealing, London, England, the son of Alan Marshall, managing director, Philippine Refining Company (later Unilever Philippines), and Mary Sylvia Clucas, daughter of Dr T. S. Hanlin.^[3][4] His sister is the journalist Penny Marshall.^[5]

When his parents moved to the Philippines and then South Africa for his father’s job with Unilever, Marshall boarded at Merchant Taylors' School, in England. He boarded in the Manor of the Rose while at the school. ^[6]

From there he went to St John's College, Oxford, to read History and Modern Languages, and subsequently took an MBA from the INSEAD (Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires) business school in Fontainebleau, France.^[7]

He is the co-founder and chairman of Marshall Wace LLP, one of Europe's largest hedge fund groups.^[8] Marshall Wace^[9] was founded in 1997 by Marshall and Ian Wace.^[10] At the time, Marshall Wace was one of the first hedge funds in London.^[6] The company started with $50 million, half of which was from George Soros.^[6]

Funds managed by Marshall Wace have won multiple investment awards^[11] and the company has become one of the world's leading managers of equity long/short strategies. Marshall Wace manages $50 billion and has recently^[when?] opened an office in China.^[12] Prior to founding Marshall Wace, Marshall worked for Mercury Asset Management, the fund management arm of S. G. Warburg & Co.

He is a member of the Hedge Fund Standards Board. 

Marshall had a longstanding involvement with Britain's Liberal Democrats party.^[13] He was research assistant to Charles Kennedy, MP, former leader of the Liberal Democrats in 1985 and stood for Parliament for the SDP/Liberal Alliance in Fulham in 1987. He has made appearances on current affairs programmes such as BBC Radio 4's Any Questions.^[14][15]

In 2004, Marshall co-edited The Orange Book with David Laws MP. Chapters were written by various upcoming Liberal Democrat politicians including Nick Clegg, Chris Huhne, Vince Cable MP, Ed Davey MP and Susan Kramer (Neither Clegg, Huhne nor Kramer were MPs at the time.) Laws, describing the pair's ambition in publishing The Orange Book, wrote "We were proud of the liberal philosophical heritage of our party. But we both felt that this philosophical grounding was in danger of being neglected in favour of no more than ‘a philosophy of good intentions, bobbing about unanchored in the muddled middle of British politics’"^[16] The book attracted initial controversy when launched^[17][18] but both it and the term 'Orange Bookers' to describe those sympathetic to its outlook continue to be frequently referenced to describe a strand of thought within the Liberal Democrats.^[19][20]

Between 2002 and 2015, Marshall donated £200,000 to the Liberal Democrats.^[6] Marshall left the party in 2015 over its policies on the EU and its support of continuing British membership.^[6]

In July 2016, Marshall donated £3,250 to Michael Gove's Conservative leadership campaign.^[21]

In 2017, Marshall gave funding to a new political news website called UnHerd.^[6]

In 2020/1 Marshall invested, in a personal capacity, £10 million into the political news and opinion channel GB News.^[22][23]

Marshall was a public supporter of Brexit during the European Union membership referendum in 2016.^[24] He gave a donation of £100,000 to the Leave campaign.^[6]

Writing for Brexit Central in April 2017 on the UK exiting the European Union, Marshall wrote: "This is a huge opportunity for the UK. Our ambition is that the UK should be a champion of free trade, open and outward looking to the world and built on strong institutions."^[25]

In an interview with the Financial Times in 2017, Marshall said: "Most people in Britain do not want to become part of a very large country called Europe. They want to be part of a country called Britain." 

He is married to Sabina. His wife is French and owns an antique shop on the King’s Road in Chelsea.^[6] Marshall is father of former Mumford & Sons band member Winston Marshall and musician Giovanna Marshall.^[39]

Winston Aubrey Aladar deBalkan Marshall (born 20 December 1987) is a British musician best known as the former banjoist and lead guitarist of the British folk rock band Mumford & Sons. Prior to this he was in the bluegrass sleaze rap group Captain Kick and the Cowboy Ramblers. With Mumford & Sons, Marshall has won multiple awards, including a Grammy and two BRITs. He has performed music with different supergroups and collaborated with HVOB.

Winston Aubrey Aladar deBalkan Marshall was born in Wandsworth, London, on 20 December 1987,^[1][a] to Sir Paul Marshall, a British investor in companies such as GB News^[4][5] and co-founder of the Marshall Wace hedge fund, and Sabina de Balkany.^[6] He has a sister, singer/songwriter Giovanna.^[7] His mother is of French origin,^[8] and his maternal grandmother was property tycoon Molly de Balkany, the first female property developer in France, of the aristocratic Balkany family; Marshall's maternal great-uncle was the developer – and once-husband of Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy – Robert Zellinger de Balkany [fr].^{[9][10][11][12]} One of his grandmothers was a Holocaust survivor.^[13] Marshall was educated at St Paul's School, an independent school in London.^[14] In 2010, The Guardian wrote that "there's [nothing] inherently wrong with musicians being privately educated. It's just a bit grating when one of them insists on going by the name "Country" Winston Marshall".^[15]

Marshall began playing guitar aged thirteen and started a ZZ Top cover group called Gobbler's Knob.^[16][3] While the other members of Mumford & Sons were influenced by jazz, Marshall described the genre in 2013 as "the lowest form of art".^[16] He was inspired to play banjo after seeing O Brother, Where Art Thou?, switching to folk music and wearing his hair in dreadlocks. Referring to his youth exploits, he saw himself as a trustafarian, and chose not to attend university in order to play music.^[16] Marshall and future bandmate Marcus Mumford met as teenagers^[17] at Church, playing worship music at a Church group together and in a worship band, with Mumford saying Marshall is "magnetic to be around".^[16][18] Marshall, a multi-instrumentalist, has said that he chose to focus on banjo over guitar because there were fewer banjoists and so it was easier for him to get session jobs.^[19]

In 2010, Marshall was involved with a supergroup called Mt. Desolation, recording music and performing shows with Ronnie Vannucci Jr. of The Killers; Tom Hobden of Noah and the Whale; and Jesse Quin and Tim Rice-Oxley of Keane. They released a free download single, "State of Affairs", as well as the self-titled album Mt. Desolation.^[74][75] In 2012, Marshall played the banjo for the Dropkick Murphys song "Rose Tattoo"; the band joked that they "kidnapped" him after playing the same festival, adding that his banjo part is "subtle, but with that rolling finger-picking style, you know it's him when you hear it".^[76] Marshall then joined a different, temporary, supergroup called Salvador Dalí Parton in October 2013, with fellow musicians Gill Landry of Old Crow Medicine Show; Mike Harris of Apache Relay; Jake Orrall of JEFF the Brotherhood; and Justin Hayward-Young of the Vaccines. The band, intended as a joke from the start, wrote six songs in 20 minutes on their first day together, held a rehearsal the next day, and performed six shows around Nashville, Tennessee, that night before breaking up.^[77]

He has also pursued stand-up comedy, taking improv classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) prior to 2013,^[16] and planning a comedy web series in 2015.^[78] He said that he wanted to take the concept of UCB to England, because they "don't have anything like it", and was invited to perform a monologue there; Vulture wrote that the monologue, about "condoms and being Jewish", though Marshall does not identify as Jewish, "didn't go well."^[79]

In March 2021, Marshall faced criticism for lauding Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy, a book written by conservative American journalist and social media personality Andy Ngo.^[69][70] Marshall later apologised for praising the book and stated that he would be taking a break from the band "to examine [his] blindspots".^[71] In June 2021, he wrote an essay to defend his support for Ngo and others who report on political extremism, discuss the reaction to his apology for the tweet, and announce that he would be permanently leaving Mumford & Sons so that he could exercise free speech about politics without involving his former bandmates.^[13][72][73] 

The Vaccines are an English indie rock^[3][1][2] band, formed in West London in 2010 by Justin Hayward-Young (lead vocals, guitar), Freddie Cowan (lead guitar, vocals), Árni Árnason (bass, vocals) and Pete Robertson (drums, vocals).

After Robertson's departure in 2016, keyboardist Timothy Lanham and drummer Yoann Intonti were promoted from touring musicians to official band members.

The band have released four studio albums: What Did You Expect from The Vaccines? (2011), Come of Age (2012), English Graffiti (2015) and Combat Sports (2018). They have sold two million records worldwide.^{[citation needed]}

The Vaccines have toured extensively, playing with and opening up for acts such as The Rolling Stones, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, The Stone Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Imagine Dragons and Muse.^{[4][5][6] [7]}

The band's debut album was the best-selling debut album of 2011 in the United Kingdom, drawing comparisons to The Ramones, The Strokes and The Jesus and Mary Chain.^[8]

Justin James Hayward-Young (born 2 May 1987), often referred to simply as Justin Young, is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. He is currently the lead singer and guitarist of English indie rock band The Vaccines.

 During his early twenties, Young lived with three other musicians in Chelsea, London: Marcus Mumford and Winston Marshall of the band Mumford and Sons, and Alan Pownall of electro outfit Pale.^[8] Mumford was a frequent early collaborator with Young as Jay Jay Pistolet, performing on recordings and playing in his band.^[9][10]

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