to have much fugitive verse, but only published 'The Village Pedagogue, a Poem, and other lesser Pieces; together with a Walk from Newcastle to Keswick,' 2nd ed. Newcastle, 1817, 8vo. The last piece, in prose, is partly autobiographical, and the whole volume rhapsodically descriptive of the lake scenery. There is attributed to him in the 'British Museum Catalogue,' 'The Right of the People of England to Annual Parliaments vindicated. … From the most authentic records,' Newcastle, 1819. This was probably the production of a namesake, John Marshall, a Newcastle printer. The sister of Marshall's father was mother of the Rev. George Walker (1735-1807) [q. v.]
[Newcastle Magazine, October 1825; Richardson's Table Book, iii. 316; Mackenzie's Hist. of Newcastle, p. 628; Newcastle Courant, 27 Aug. 1835.]
MARSHALL, JOHN (1784?–1837), lieutenant in the navy and author, has himself recorded that he 'went to sea at nine years of age, and served during the whole of the late war in vessels of a class to which no schoolmaster is allowed' (Preface to Royal Naval Biography, 1823), that is, in sloops, cutters, or other small craft. He was therefore probably born in 1784, and first went to sea in 1793. At the conclusion of the war he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant 14 Feb. 1815, and was shelved. It was understood that the step might be counted as a retiring pension.
Marshall began in 1823 the publication of the 'Royal Naval Biography, or Memoirs of the Services of all the Flag-Officers … Post Captains, and Commanders whose names appeared on the Admiralty List of Sea Officers at the commencement of the present year (1823), or who have since been promoted.' The work was continued till 1836, extending to twelve octavo volumes; which he distinguished by a very puzzling notation; vol. ii., for instance, is 'vol. i. part ii.;' vol. v. is 'Supplement, part i.;' vol. viii. is 'Supplement, part iv.;' and vol. ix. is 'vol. iii. part i.' It is generally bound and lettered in twelve volumes. It has no pretensions to literary merit, and the author seldom attempts any critical judgment of the conduct he describes, On the other hand, many of the lives were evidently contributed by the officers themselves, and though events are thus sometimes described in too favourable a manner, there are commonly interspersed in them copies of official or private letters, and other documents, which give a very real value to the work. Marshall died in the beginning of 1837.
[Navy List; Roy. Nav. Biog.]
MARSHALL, JOHN (1783–1841), statistical writer, born in 1783, was for many years a supernumerary at the home office. In 1831 he was employed on the commission to inspect the boundaries of the cities and boroughs, for purposes of the Reform Bill, and made some disingenuous efforts to secure the enfranchisement of a few very small places. Marshall was subsequently made an inspector of factories. He died on 11 March 1841 in Stamford Street, Blackfriars.
Marshall compiled:
- 'Topographical and Statistical Details of the county of Berks; exhibiting the population at each of the three periods 1801, 1811, and 1831,' 8vo, London, 1830.
- ' An Account of the Population in each of six thousand of the towns and parishes in England and Wales, as returned to Parliament at each of the three periods 1801, 1811, and 1831,' 4to. London, 1831.
- 'Alphabetical Index to the Topographical and Statistical Details in each of the 466 parishes, chantries, and townships in the County Palatine of Lancaster,' 8to, London, 1832.
- 'Mortality of the Metropolis, 1639-1831,' 4to, London, 1832.
- 'Topographical and Statistical Details of the Metropolis, showing the Population as returned to Parliament... 1801. 1811, 1821, and 1831,' 8vo, London, 1832.
- 'A Digest of all the Accounts relating to the Population, Productions, Revenues, Financial Operations, Manufactures. Shipping, Colonies, Commerce of the United Kingdom,' 2 pts. 4to, London, 1833. Three thousand copies of this book, on the motion of Joseph Hume [q. v.], were purchased by the government at two guineas each, and distributed among the members of both houses of parliament, who treated them with the disrespect incidental to parliamentary papers.
- 'An Analysis and Compendium of all the Returns made to Parliament (since the commencement of the nineteenth century) relating to the Increase of Population in Great Britain and Ireland,' 4to, London, 1835. Marshall also supervised a 'remodelled edition' of Brookes's 'London General Gazetteer,' 8vo, 1831.
[Gent. Mag. 1841, pt. i. pp. 548-9.]
MARSHALL, JOHN, Lord Curriehill (1794–1868), Scottish judge, son of John Marshall of Garlieston, Wigtonshire, by Marion, daughter of Henry Walker, was born in Wigtonshire on 7 Jan. 1794. His family were in poor circumstances, and he walked from his native place to Edinburgh in order to attend the university. He was in November 1818 called to the Scottish bar, and the proceeds of an extensive practice enabled
