Author: Marshall, John
Biography:
MARSHALL, John (b 1807?: ancestry.co.uk)
BBA identifies the author of The Robber as an Episcopal minister. If so, he was born in 1807 at Carsbank, near Forfar, Angus. He was tutored at a school near Durham, returned to Scotland in 1822 and attended King’s College University and Marischal College. In 1823 he received deacon’s orders from Dr Torry, Bishop of Dunkeld, and the following year he was ordained. From 1830 he was in charge of a church at Kirkaldy but he retired to Blairgowrie in 1839 because of poor health. There, he formed an Episcopal congregation and built a church—possibly as a memorial to his deceased spouse although no details of his marriage have been located—which he paid for himself. He resigned charge of the church in 1844 and moved first to the Isle of Man to educate his stepson and then to Forfar. His other writings are historical and ecclesiastical. In 1844 he originated the Scottish Episcopal Times, a short-lived weekly journal. (BBA; John Smith, Our Scottish Clergy [1849]) SR