{{other people}} {{BLP sources|date=May 2024}} {{Use British English|date=December 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = Dame | name = Mary Marsh | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DBE}} | image = | caption = | birth_name = Mary Elizabeth Falconer | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|08|17|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | education = Birkenhead High School | alma_mater = University of Nottingham<br> Hatfield Polytechnic<br> London Business School. | occupation = Activist, academic | boards = HSBC | spouse = | children = 4 }}
'''Dame Mary Elizabeth Marsh''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DBE|FRSA}} ({{nee}} '''Falconer'''; born 17 August 1946<ref>[http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/search/results/22796/Mary%20Elizabeth%20MARSH.aspx Biodata at Debrett's] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323204909/http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/search/results/22796/Mary%20Elizabeth%20MARSH.aspx |date=2012-03-23 }}</ref>) is non-executive director of HSBC Bank plc and member of the governing body at London Business School. She is chair of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) board of trustees.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/news/dame-mary-marsh-appointed-chair-new-rcpch-board-trustees|title=Dame Mary Marsh appointed to chair new RCPCH Board of Trustees {{!}} RCPCH|website=www.rcpch.ac.uk|access-date=2016-10-13}}</ref>
==Early life== Marsh is the daughter of George Donald Falconer and his wife, Lesley Mary Wilson. She attended Birkenhead High School and then the University of Nottingham, where she graduated with a BSc in Geography. She later obtained a DipEd from Hatfield Polytechnic, and an MBA from the London Business School.{{citation needed|date=April 2018}}
==Career== She started her career as a geography teacher at Luton Comprehensive School, and then became deputy head of St Christopher School in Letchworth. She was appointed head teacher of Queens' School in Hertfordshire, and moved to Holland Park School in 1995. She was the founding director of the Clore Social Leadership Programme from 2008 to 2015, and the chief executive of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) from 2000 to 2008.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120323204909/http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/search/results/22796/Mary%20Elizabeth%20MARSH.aspx Profile], debretts.com. Accessed 1 April 2026.</ref>
==Honours== She was decorated as a DBE by HM The Queen in the 2007 New Year Honours list for "services to families and children".
==Personal life== A widow, Marsh has four sons and lives in London.{{citation needed|date=April 2026}}
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120323204909/http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/search/results/22796/Mary%20Elizabeth%20MARSH.aspx Biodata] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110719231602/http://portalcontent.london.edu/news/alumni/Alumni_Awards_2006/alumni_awards_2006.html Marsh wins achievement award]
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