Background
He was the third son of the wealthy industrialist John Marshall who introduced major innovations in flax spinning and built the celebrated Marshall"s Mill and Temple Works in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
He was the third son of the wealthy industrialist John Marshall who introduced major innovations in flax spinning and built the celebrated Marshall"s Mill and Temple Works in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
The fourth brother, Henry Cowper, was Mayor of Leeds in 1842-1843. Marshall bought the Monk Coniston estate, near Coniston, Cumbria, from the Knott family in 1835. He later created the celebrated landscape of Tarn Hows by constructing a dam to merge three existing small tarns into the present body of water, at the same time supplying water power to his sawmill in Yewdale.
The estate was later bought by Beatrix Potter and eventually passed to the National Trust.
James Garth Marshall wrote a pamphlet entitled Minorities and Majorities. Their Relative Rights.
A Letter to Lord John Russell, Member of Parliament on Parliamentary Reform.
15th United Kingdom Parliament.