Anthony Marreco

Anthony (Tony) Freire Marreco (9 August 1915 – 4 June 2006) was a British barrister. He was Junior Counsel at the Nuremberg trials, and later a founding director of Amnesty International. He was also known for his romantic liaisons, marrying four times and having numerous other affairs.

Early life

Marreco was the only son of Geoffrey Marreco, of St Mawes in Cornwall. Marreco's family were of Portuguese descent, although his great-grandfather Antonio Joaquim Freire Marreco (1787–1850) had become a naturalised British subject, establishing himself in business in England in the early 1820s as a wine importer. He was educated at Westminster School, where he met Mahatma Gandhi and T. E. Lawrence. He then attended RADA but was expelled when he missed lessons to attend the Derby.^[1]

Career

In the

He lent his support to Peter Benenson, the son of his neighbour in London, as when Benenson founded Amnesty International in 1960,^[3] but resigned as treasurer in 1971 when Amnesty refused to investigate reports of torture by British troops in Northern Ireland.^[4]

Marreco maintained homes at

In 1954 while in Brazil for SG Warburg, Marreco met Regina (Gina) de Souza Coelho (b. 1927), only daughter of Dr. Roberto de Souza Coelho, of Rio de Janeiro. They married in 1955, but the marriage was dissolved in 1961. He married for a third time later that year to Anne Wignall (née Acland-Troyte), formerly the wife of the 5th Baron Ebury. She died in 1982, and he resumed his relationship with his second wife in 1990, buying a cottage in Aldbourne, Wiltshire in 1997 and re-marrying her in 2004.^[5]

References

External links

• anthonymarreco.com