Background
He was the second 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 second 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 married Mary Dykes, daughter of Joseph Ballantyne Dykes from Cockermouth, Cumbria, and they had five children. Their youngest son Julian was a noted music and print collector and writer
11th United Kingdom Parliament.