MARSHALL, William. b. hamlet of Meadowmore, Perthshire 1807; ed. at Glasgow univ. 1820–2; minister of united secession church, Coupar-Angus, Perthshire 28 Dec. 1830 to death; edited The Dissenter, 12 monthly numbers Jany. to Dec. 1833; secretary of the Voluntary church association; helped to bring about union of relief and secession churches 1847; moderator of united presbyterian synod 1865; D.D. New York univ. June 1865 and Hamilton univ. July 1865; presented with £1500 by his friends 29 Oct. 1872; author of Men of mark in British church history 1875; Historic names in Forfarshire 1875; Historic scenes in Perthshire 1880. d. Coupar-Angus 22 Aug. 1880. Mc Kelvie’s Annals of the United presbyterian church p. 609.
MARSHALL, William Henry. b. 1793; entered Bengal army 1810; ensign 17 Bengal N.I. 12 June 1813, lieut. 1816; captain 35 N.I. 10 Oct. 1825, major 2 April 1834 to 4 Jany. 1841; lieut.-col. of 34 N.I. 4 Jany. 1841 to 1845, of 73 N.I. 1845–46, of 34 N.I. 1846–50, of 32 N.I. 1850–51; col. of 32 N.I. 15 March 1851 to 1861, of 3 N.I. 1861 to death; L.G. 23 July 1865. d. Southport, Lancashire 29 Jany. 1868.
MARSHAM, Henry Shovell Jones. b. 28 Jany. 1794; entered navy 17 May 1807; captain 24 Dec. 1833; retired R.A. 21 Oct. 1856; retired admiral 18 Oct. 1867. d. Hayle place near Maidstone 26 Oct. 1875.
MARSHAM, Robert Bullock (eld. son of hon. and rev. Jacob Marsham, canon of Windsor 1759–1840). b. 17 June 1786; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1814, D.C.L. 1826; fellow of Merton coll. 1812–26, dean 1824, warden 1826 to death; barrister L.I. 20 May 1813; recorder of Rochester to 1826; contested univ. of Oxf. July 1852. d. Caversfield house near Bicester 27 Dec. 1880. bur. north transept of Merton college chapel 1 Jany. 1881. I.L.N. lxxviii 37 (1881), portrait; Law Times, lxx 161 (1881).
MARSHMAN, John Clark (eld. son of Joshua Marshman, orientalist and missionary 1768–1837). b. Aug. 1794; went with his father to Serampur near Calcutta 1800; directed his father’s religious undertakings from 1812; started the first paper mill in India; founded with his father the first newspaper in Bengali, the Sumachar Durpun 31 May 1818, also the first English weekly paper The Friend of India 1821; spent £30,000 on the Serampur college for the education of natives; official Bengali translator to the government, resigned and returned to England 1852; chairman of committee of audit of East India railway; C.S.I. 8 Dec. 1868; contested Ipswich 1857, Harwich 1859 and Marylebone 1861; author of The history of India 1842, 5 ed. 1860; Marshman’s Guide to the civil law of the presidency of Fort William, translated into Urdu by J. J. Moore 2 vols. 1845–6, 2 ed. 1848; The life and times of Carey, Marshman and Ward, embracing the history of the Serampore mission 2 vols. 1859; The history of India from the earliest period to the close of Lord Dalhousie’s administration 3 vols. 1863–7, 2 ed. 1867. d. 2 Redcliffe sq. Kensington, London 8 July 1877.
MARSON, Job (son of Job Marson of Malton and Beverley, horse trainer). b. Belle Vue training stables near Malton, Yorkshire; won the St. Leger on Nutwith 1843, on Van Tromp 1847 and on Voltigeur 1850; won the Derby on Voltigeur 1850 and on Teddington 1851, beating 32 horses, being more than had ever before ran in the Derby; rode for lord Eglinton, lord George Bentinck and sir Joseph Hawley. d. Middleham 11 Sep. 1857. Sporting Review, xxxiii 1–6 (1855), portrait, xxxviii 238–40 (1857); Rice’s History of the British turf, i 267 (1879); I.L.N. xxii 417 (1853), portrait.
MARSTON, Charles Dallas. b. 1824; ed. at Eton and Caius coll. Camb., scholar, B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Hougham in Dover, Kent 1850–62; R. of St. Mary, Marylebone, London 5 July 1862 to 1866; R. of Kersall Moore near Manchester 1866–73; V. of St. Paul, Onslow sq. Kensington 1873 to death; author of Manual of the inspiration of scripture 1859; Expositions on the epistles 1865; Advent sermons 1865; The four gospels, their diversity and harmony 1866; Fundamental truths 1866; Victory and service, illustrated by sermons on Joshua 1871. d. East Sheen, Surrey 12 Aug. 1876.
MARSTON, G., stage name of G. Marsh (dau. of John Baptiste Noel). b. Castle st. Oxford st. London, Feb. 1810; first appeared in public 18 Aug. 1826 as Annette in Blue Devils at Catherine st. theatre; played in the provinces to 1830; (m. 1830 Henry Marston 1804–83); lived in retirement 1830–44; played most of the old women’s parts in Phelps’s Shakespearean and other revivals at Sadler’s Wells 1844–59, her best parts were the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Pauline in A Winter’s tale and Dame Quickly in Henry the fifth; played Widow Green in The love chase at Haymarket 15 Oct. 1857, the Duenna Dorothea in Oxenford’s Monastery of St. Just at Princess’s 25 June 1864, and Madame Deschapelle in The lady of Lyons at Lyceum 16 Sep. 1867. d. 5 March 1887. Tallis’s Drawing room table book, part 14, portrait; Theatrical times, ii 169, 194 (1847), portrait.
MARSTON, Henry, stage name of Richard Henry Marsh (son of a physician). b. Highworth, Wiltshire, March 1804; ed. at Winchester; appeared as Romeo at Southampton 18 Aug. 1824, and as Florian in The foundling of the forest at Salisbury 18 June 1825; made his début in London at Drury Lane 30 Oct. 1839 as Benedick in Much ado about nothing; acted Triboulet the jester in W. E. Burton’s The Court Fool at Sadler’s Wells 11 May 1840; took a leading part in Samuel Phelps’s Shakespearean revivals at Sadler’s Wells 1844–61, made a great success as Mephistopheles in Faust; played Iago at Princess’s 18 June 1863, Frank Rochford in Westland Marston’s Pure Gold at Sadler’s Wells 10 Nov. 1863, Charles V. in Oxenford’s The monastery of St. Just at Princess’s 25 June 1864; acted Henry IV. at Drury Lane 24 Sep. 1864, Belarius in Cymbeline at Queen’s 30 March 1872, and Sergius Dentatus in Virginius at Queen’s 20 April 1872; played Farmer Dodd in C. Wilson’s Lost or Found at Holborn 21 Dec. 1872; a special performance of Much ado about nothing was given at Lyceum theatre for his benefit 29 May 1879; master of the Urban lodge of freemasons to 25 Feb. 1870; elected annuitant on royal masonic benevolent institution 16 May 1879. d. 4 Lidlington place, Oakley sq. London 23 March 1883. bur. Highgate cemet. Tallis’s Drawing room table books, parts 9 and 18, 2 portraits; Theatrical times, i 201 (1847), portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news, xi 280, 318 (1879), portrait.
MARSTON, John Westland (son of Stephen Marston, baptist minister). b. Boston, Lincs. 30 Jany. 1819; articled to his maternal uncle a London solicitor 1834; edited with John Saunders The National Magazine, vols. 1 and 2, 1856–7; author of the following plays The patrician’s daughter produced at Drury Lane 10 Dec. 1842; The heart and the world 1847; Strathmore 1849; Philip of France and Marie de Miranie 1850; Anne Blake 1852; A life’s ransom, Lyceum 16 Feb. 1857; A hard struggle, Lyceum 1 Feb. 1858; The wife’s portrait, Haymarket 15 March 1862; Pure Gold, Sadler’s Wells 10 Nov. 1863; Donna Diana, his best play Princess’s 16 Jany. 1864; The favourite of fortune, Haymarket 2 April 1866; A hero of romance, Haymarket 14 March 1868; Life for life, Lyceum 6 March 1869; Lamed for life, Royalty 12 June 1871; Put to the test, Olympic 24 Feb. 1873; Under fire, Vaudeville 1 April 1885; contributed much poetical criticism to the Athenæum from about 1863; LL.D. Glasgow univ. 1863; received £928 from a benefit performance of Werner at Lyceum theatre 1 June 1887; author of Gerald, a dramatic poem, and other poems 1842; A lady in her own right: a novel 1860; Family credit and other tales 1861; The wife’s portrait and other tales 1869; Dramatic and other works, collective edition 2 vols. 1876; Our recent actors 2 vols. 1888. d. at his lodgings, 191 Euston road, London 5 Jany. 1890. bur. Highgate cemet. R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, ii 159–86 (1844); T. Powell’s Pictures of living authors of Britain (1851) 201–206; I.L.N. 25 Jany. 1890 p. 111, portrait; London Figaro 18 Jany. 1890 p. 6, portrait.