Author: Marshall, John
Biography:
MARSHALL, John (1762-1825: ODNB)
The only child of Eleanor (Pembroke) Marshall and the master mariner John Marshall, he was born on 11 Mar. 1762 and baptised at All Saints, Newcastle upon Tyne, on 13 Apr. He was given a good education at the Newcastle Free School. After the deaths of his mother (1777) and father (1780) he inherited a substantial fortune but could not hold onto it. He was admitted to the Guild of Freemen of Newcastle in 1782 as master and mariner—probably by patrimony. For a time he went to sea, but in 1804 he turned to teaching, first in the Lake District at a school near Keswick, then at Loweswater. In 1807 he was teaching at a school closer to his original home, in North Shields, Northumberland, and by 1817 was running a school of his own at Newburn, Newcastle. He never married. Overtaken by ill health, he entered a charity hospital in Dec. 1819. In Jan. 1821 he moved to the Freemen’s Hospital, where he died on 19 Aug. 1825. He was buried in the churchyard of All Saints on 21 Aug. He was not the John Marshall of Newcastle (fl 1800-31) who ran a circulating library and published local (and radical) authors. (ODNB 12 June 2023; findmypast.com 12 June 2023; Joan Knott, “Circulating Libraries in Newcastle in the 18th and 19th Centuries,” Library History 2:6 [1972] 227-49)
Other Names:
- J. Marshall