Marcus Lipton CBE (29 October 1900 – 22 February 1978) was a British Labour Party politician. The son of Benjamin and Mary Lipton of Sunderland, he was educated at Hudson Road Council School and Bede Grammar School in the town, before winning a scholarship to Merton College, Oxford in 1919.[1][2][3] He was supported by a Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths exhibition bursary. He graduated with a Second in Modern History in 1922 and then studied law and was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1926.