The Baron Marlesford, who died 13 July, 2025, aged 93, was a Suffolk landowner, and a Conservative politician and life peer. He was head of the Schreiber landed gentry family of Marlesford Hall, Suffolk.
Mark Shuldham Schreiber was born 11 September, 1931, son of Wing Commander John Schreiber (1901-68), of Marlesford Hall, and the former Constance Maureen Dent (who died 12 Dec, 1980). He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.
He married 18 Oct, 1969, Countess Gabriella Federica di Castelletto d'Uzonne, daughter of Conte Teodora Veglio di Castelletto d'Uzonne, of Johannesburg, by whom he had issue, two daughters, Nicola and Sophie.
In his political career as Mark Schreiber he was one of the team who advised Sir Edward Heath on making Whitehall more efficient, and subsequently from 1974 to 1991 an accomplished Lobby correspondent for The Economist.
From 1968 to 1970 Schreiber was a councillor on East Suffolk County Council, and from 1970 to 1974 was a special adviser to the Government, working mainly for Lord Rothschild, head of the Central Policy Review Staff.
He served on the Countryside Commission from 1980 to 1992 and the Rural Development Commission from 1985 to 1993 and was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Suffolk in 1991. He chaired the Council for the Preservation of Rural England from 1993 to 1998 and was president of the Suffolk Preservation Society from 1998, as well as chair of Marlesford parish council.
He was an independent director of The Times, a director of Eastern Electricity, Royal Ordnance and British Rail’s Anglia Region, and an adviser to John Swire & Sons and Mitsubishi. He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for Suffolk in 1991.
He was raised to the peerage for life in 1991 as Baron Marlesford, of Marlesford in the County of Suffolk.
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