Mark Schreiber, Baron Marlesford

Mark Shuldham Schreiber, Baron Marlesford (born 11 September 1931) is a British Conservative politician.

Early life
Mark Shuldham Schreiber is son of Wing Cdr John Shuldham Schreiber and Constance Maureen Dent, His parents married on 26 June 1930 at St. Margaret's, Westminster. His father was son of Capt. Charles Shuldham Schreiber J.P. and his wife Margaret Henderson (m. 10 Nov 1900), daughter of Alexander Henderson, of Buscot Park, member of the London Stock Exchange, and his wife Jane Ellen Davis. Mark is a great grandson of Charles Alfred Schreiber Esq, who was a Captain in the 34th Regiment when on 11 October 1866, he married Rosa Alexandrine Thompson, daughter of John Robert Thompson Esq. (bap. 1 July 1788), son of James Thompson and Ann Maria Smith (m. 7 September 1783 Saint Augustine The Less, Bristol, Gloucester, England).

Mark's maternal grandparents Charles Basil Demetrius Hastings Dent (aka Charles Hastings Dent; b. 21 July 1874), Liverpool District Superintendent for the London and North-Western Railway, and Caroline Gertrude Stuart Parker (b. 17 July 1882) married on 1 January 1903 in West Kirby. Caroline was a daughter of Emily Ethel Knathchbull Birch and Samuel Sandbach Parker, thus granddaughter of Charles Stuart Parker, a mercantile partner of Samuel Sandbach. Charles Hastings Dent was the son of Adm. Charles Bayley Calmady Dent (aka Calmady Dent) and Corinna Kourkoumelles of Afra, who married in London at Kensington Parish Church, on 6 August 1863. According to his own statements, his great-grandmother Corinna was Greek and a niece of Ioannis Kapodistrias.

Mark was educated at Sandroyd School, before heading to Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Political career
Schreiber did his national service in the Coldstream Guards being commissioned a lieutenant. He started his commercial life in the chemical industry (Fisons Ltd: 1957–1963). He worked for the Conservative Party Research Department in the 1960s and advised Edward Heath as Leader of the Opposition. From 1968 to 1970 he was a Councillor on the East Suffolk County Council. From 1970 to 1974 he was a Special Adviser to the Government, mainly working for Lord Rothschild the head of the Central Policy Review Staff (CPRS). From 1974 to 1991 he was a journalist on The Economist, as parliamentary lobby correspondent.

Schreiber was created a life peer on 7 June 1991 as Baron Marlesford, of Marlesford in the County of Suffolk, where he is a farmer.

Rural politics
Since 1991 he has been a Deputy Lieutenant of Suffolk. From 1980 to 1992, he had been a member of the Countryside Commission 1980–92, and then on the Rural Development Commission 1985–93.

A former national chairman of CPRE (1993–98), he is president of the Suffolk Preservation Society (1998- ) and chairman of the Marlesford Parish Council.

House of Lords
Financial Affairs Sub-Committee 2000-05 and 2010-, Home Affairs Sub-Committee 2005–09;

Director of the Eastern Group plc 1989–95, Times Newspapers Holdings Ltd (ind nat dir) 1991-, Baring New Russia Fund 1997–2007. An adviser to the Mitsubishi Corporation International NV 1990–2003, and to John Swire & Sons 1992–2009.

Some political highlights
In October 2011 he questioned the planned expenditure of £500,000 on bat bridges for the future dual carriageway for the A11 from Thetford to Barton Mills.

On 12 and 13 February 2015, Lord Marlesford took part in the Vacant Residential Property debate in the Lords.

Lord Marlesford is a social conservative. In favour of hunting with dogs, he has proposed to overturn the ban. This conservatism extends to political integration in Europe, and a referendum on membership. And he is all in favour of students paying their own way. When the Prime Minister proposed a reduction in the number of MPs he was enthusiastic, but has erred on the side of moderate improvement to controls over people. No changes to the asylum system, and against ID cards, he is moderately against allowing more interference in personal lives.

Family life
He married Gabriella Veglio di Castelletto d'Uzzone, daughter of Conte Veglio di Castelletto d'Uzzone in 1969 in Suffolk. He is the father of two daughters, Nicola Charlotte and Sophie Louisa. He has four grandchildren.