MARSHALL, George. b. 29 Sep. 1794; banker at Birmingham; numismatist; author of A view of the silver coin and coinage of Great Britain, also an account of the silver coins struck in Scotland 1838. d. 25 Feb. 1855.
MARSHALL, Henry (son of John Marshall). b. Kilsyth, Stirlingshire 1775; ed. at Glasgow univ.; surgeon’s mate in royal navy, May 1803; assistant surgeon in Forfarshire militia Jany. 1805 and in 89th foot April 1806; assistant surgeon 2 Ceylon regiment 1809, surgeon 1 Ceylon regiment 1813–21, staff surgeon in North Britain 1821–3 at Chatham 1823–5 and at Dublin 1825–8; deputy-inspector general of hospitals on h.p. 22 July 1830; investigated with Sir A. M. Tulloch statistics of the sickness, &c. of the British army 1835–6; the first hon. M.D. of New York univ. 1847; F.R.S. Edinb.; author of Notes on the medical topography of the interior of Ceylon 1821; On the enlisting, the discharging and pensioning of soldiers 1832, 2 ed. 1839; Ceylon, a general description of the island 1846. d. Edinburgh 5 May 1851. John Brown’s Horæ Subsecivæ (1858) 225–90; Edinb. Med. and Surg. journal, lxxvi 489–92 (1851).
MARSHALL, Henry. b. 1795; attorney at Godalming, Surrey 1816 to death; mayor of Godalming 1836 and six times afterwards; clerk of the peace for Surrey, Oct. 1856 to 1872; registrar of Guildford county court 1856–69. d. High st. Godalming 23 Sep. 1874. bur. Farncombe cemetery near there 28 Sep. Solicitors’ Journal, xviii 904 (1874).
MARSHALL, Hubert. b. 1804 or 1805; entered Madras army 14 Sep. 1824; lieut. 33 Madras N.I. 11 Nov. 1826, major 5 July 1854; deputy secretary to government military department 1852 to 1869; lieut.-col. 8 Madras N.I. 2 Jany. 1860 to 1861; lieut.-col. 18 Madras N.I. 1861–3; lieut.-col. 33 Madras N.I. 1863–5; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Newton house, Dalkeith 3 May 1880.
MARSHALL, James (son of a doctor at Rothesay, Bute, who d. 1806). b. Rothesay 23 Feb. 1796; ed. at Paisley gr. sch. and univs. of Glasgow and Edinb.; minister of Outer high church, Glasgow 1819–28; minister of Tolbooth ch. Edinb. 1828, resigned 29 Sep. 1841; ordained by bishop of Durham as curate of Norham, Durham 19 Dec. 1841; R. of St. Mary-le-Port, Bristol 1842–7; secretary to newly founded Lay readers’ association 1845; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Clifton, May 1847 to death; edited Letters of the late Mrs. Isabella Graham of New York 1839; author of Inward revival or motives and hindrances to advancement in holiness. Edinb. 1840; Early piety illustrated in the life and death of a young parishioner. d. Vyvyan terrace, Clifton 29 Aug. 1855. Memoir by Rev. James Marshall (1857); Scott’s Fasti, vol. 1 pt. 1 p. 52 (1866).
MARSHALL, Sir James (2 son of preceding). b. Edinburgh 19 Dec. 1829; lost his right arm through a gun accident; matric. from Ex. coll. Oxf. 3 Feb. 1848; B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; C. of St. Bartholomew’s, Little Moorfields, London 1854–7; joined Church of Rome, Nov. 1857; procurator and precentor in R.C. ch. Bayswater, London; classical master at Oratory school, Birmingham 1863; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1868; practised at Manchester; chief magistrate of the Gold Coast and assessor to the native chiefs May 1873; raised levies in Ashanti war 1874; senior puisne judge of supreme court of the Gold Coast, Nov. 1876, chief justice 1879 to 1882; knighted at Windsor Castle 29 June 1882; executive comr. for West African colonies at Colonial exhibition 1886; C.M.G. 28 June 1886; chief justice of territories of royal Niger company 1887; knight commander of St. Gregory the Great, June 1889. d. Margate 11 Aug. 1889.
MARSHALL, James. b. 1806; founded business of Marshall and Snelgrove, drapers and silk mercers at 11 Vere st. Oxford st. London 10 April 1837, they employed nearly 1800 hands in 1887, in 1800 the largest haberdasher’s shop in London employed only 16 persons; in 1893 they were silk mercers at 10 to 20 Vere st., 334 to 348 and 352 and 354 Oxford st., 14 to 20 Henrietta st. Cavendish sq., 2 to 24 Marylebone lane, and at Scarborough and Leeds. d. Goldbeaters, Millhill, Hendon, Middlesex 22 Nov. 1893, leaving personal estate of the net value of £719,116.
MARSHALL, James Garth (3 son of John Marshall of Headingley, Leeds, M.P. for Yorkshire 1826–30). b. Leeds 20 Feb. 1802; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; member of firm of Marshall and Co. of Holbeck, Leeds and Shrewsbury, flax spinners, the former of these mills is described in Disraeli’s ‘Sybil’ 1845; M.P. for Leeds 30 July 1847 to 1 July 1852; F.G.S. 1833; A.I.C.E. 1 May 1838; sheriff of Yorkshire 1860. d. Monk Coniston near Ambleside 22 Oct. 1873. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxviii 317–20 (1874).
MARSHALL, John, Lord Curriehill (son of John Marshall of Garlieston, Wigtonshire). b. Wigtonshire 7 Jany. 1794; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; called to Scotch bar Nov. 1818; purchased estate of Curriehill in Midlothian; dean of faculty of advocates March 1852; a judge of court of session with title of Lord Curriehill 3 Nov. 1852 to Oct. 1868. d. Curriehill near Edinb. 27 Oct. 1868. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 123–4, portrait.
MARSHALL, John, Lord Curriehill (eld. son of preceding). b. Edinburgh 15 Oct. 1827; ed. at Edinb. academy and univs. of Glasgow and Edinb.; called to Scotch bar 1851; a member of general council of univs. of Edinb. and Glasgow; a judge of court of session with title of Lord Curriehill 29 Oct. 1874 to death; chancellor’s assessor of Edinb. univ. court; author of Analysis of titles to land consolidation (Scotland) act 1868. Edinburgh 1869. d. Curriehill near Edinb. 5 Nov. 1881.