Howard Marshall(1900-1973)
- Actor
Howard Marshall was a master of the spoken word. He earned a place in
cricket history as the first BBC broadcaster to commentate reports of
the game. He was an Authentic while at Oxford. He became well known to
thousands of radio listeners for his descriptions of boxing, rugby
football and events during the second world war in North Africa and
Western Europe, including the D-Day landings at Normandy in 1944. He
also wrote cricket and rugby reports for "The Daily Telegraph" for
several years.