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Author: Marshall, Thomas

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MARSHALL, Thomas (1802-38: ancestry.co.uk)

He was born on 18 Nov. 1802 and baptised at Witton, near Northwich, Cheshire, one of at least three children  of Thomas Marshall (1767-1831), from a wealthy Cheshire salt and rock merchant dynasty, and Eliza(beth) Thearsby (1762-1841), daughter of a wealthy surgeon. His parents had married at Witton in 1796. His father built Hartford Cottage in 1802 and a fine Georgian house, Hartford Beach, in 1814-24, and assumed the role of gentleman. He sent his son to Rugby, where he won the English verse prize in 1821 for “Vesuvius.”  He proceeded to St. John’s College Cambridge (matric. 1821, Scholar 1821, BA 1825, MA 1825), where he submitted Athens (1824) for the Chancellor’s Prize which was won that year by Winthrop Mackworth Praed (q.v.). He also entered the Middle Temple in 1825 and was called to the Bar in 1829. His father died in 1831, leaving the family one of the richest in central Cheshire, with over £100,000 of assets. Thomas Marshall (junior) continued to practice law and run the salt business. He married Agnes Phoebe Legard (1809-68), daughter of Digby Legard of Watton Abbey, Yorkshire, on 14 Apr. 1832 at St. Martin’s, Chester. They had one son, Thomas Horatio Marshall (1833-1917), who was educated at Eton and Exeter College Oxford. Marshall died suddenly on 19 Mar. 1838 at Hartford Beach. A few years after his death, his widow, Agnes, invited her elder sister, Frances, to come and live at Hartford Beach. (ancestry.co.uk 20 Mar. 2023; The Rugby Register [1847], 269; Chester Courant 5 July 1831; Chester Chronicle 20 Apr. 1832; MH 23 Mar. 1838; D. A. Iredale, “The Rise and Fall of the Marshalls of Northwich, Salt Proprietors: A Saga of the Industrial Era in Cheshire, 1720-1917” [1965], hslc.org.uk) AA

 

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  • T. M.
 

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