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 :: 4 Nov. 1872. With W. S. Wills he produced ‘Cora,’ a drama in three acts, Globe Theatre, 28 Feb. 1877. For his friend Henry Irving he wrote two pieces, a drama in four acts, founded on the history of Robert Emmet, and a version of ‘Werner,’ altered and adapted for the stage. The latter was produced at the Lyceum Theatre on the occasion of the benefit given to [q. v.] by Henry Irving on 1 June 1887. Marshall's ‘Robert Emmet’ has not been put on the stage. During his last years he edited, with the assistance of many competent scholars, a new edition of the works of Shakespeare, called ‘The Henry Irving Edition.’ (Sir) Henry Irving contributed an introduction. Marshall was a genial companion, and collected a valuable library. He died, after some years of declining health, at 8 Bloomsbury Square, London, 28 Dec. 1889.
 * 1) ‘Brighton,’ a comedy in four acts, founded on Bronson Howard's ‘Saratoga,’ Court Theatre, 25 May 1874.
 * 2) ‘Biohn,’ a romantic opera in five acts, with music by Lauro Rossi, Queen's Theatre, 17 Jan. 1877, in which his wife, Mrs. Fitzinman Marshall, appeared as Elfrida, and was a failure.
 * 3) ‘Family Honours,’ a comedy in three acts, Aquarium Theatre, 18 May 1878.
 * 4) ‘Lola, or the Belle of Baccarato,’ a comic opera, with music by Antonio Orsini, Olympic Theatre, 15 Jan. 1881.

His first wife died on 19 Feb. 1885; and he married secondly, on 2 May 1885, Miss Ada Cavendish, the well-known actress.

Marshall printed:
 * 1) ‘A Study of Hamlet,’ 1875.
 * 2) ‘Henry Irving, Actor and Manager, by an Irvingite,’ 1883.
 * 3) ‘L. S. D.,’ an unfinished novel, brought out in the ‘Britannia Magazine.’



MARSHALL, GEORGE (fl. 1554), poet, is only known by one work, entitled 'A Compendious Treatise in metre declaring the firste originall of Sacrifice and of the buylding of Aultares and Churches and of the first receavinge of the Christen fayth here in Englande, by G. M.. . . Anno Domini 1.5.5.4. 18 Decembris' (printed by I[ohn] C[awood]). 'The Preface unto the Readers' applies the author's name in an acrostic. The dedication, in prose, in addressed to 'Rycharde Whartun, esquier.' The treatise is a poem in fifty-nine eight-line stanzas (rhyming a a b c c b d d), and describes the growth of Christianity, chiefly in England, till the accession of Queen Mary. The poet is a pious catholic, indulges in strong language concerning the heresies of Wiclif and Luther, and finally congratulates his countrymen on the restoration of the old faith under Mary. Two copies only are known, one in Mr. Huth's library, and the other at Lambeth. The author describes himself as 'emptye of learning,' but inserts references in side notes to Beda, Josephus, and Eusebius, as well as to the Vulgate. It was reprinted in 1875 in Mr, Huth's 'Fugitive Tracts,' 1st ser. No. xv.



MARSHALL, HENRY, M.D. (1775–1851), inspector-general of army hospitals, son of John Marshall, was born in 1776 at Kilsyth in Stirlingshire. Although his father was a comparatively poor man, Henry had the advantage of studying medicine at Glasgow university, and subsequently received an appointment, in May 1803, as surgeon's mate in the royal navy. This post he relinquished in January 1805 for that of assistant-surgeon of the Forfarshire regiment of militia, exchanging in April 1806 into the 69th regiment. With the last regiment he served in South America, at the Cape of Good Hope, and in Ceylon. 'We find him,' writes his biographer,, M.D, (1810–1882) [q. v.], in 'Horæ Subsecivæ,' 'when a mere lad at the Cape, in the beginning of the century, making out tables of the diseases of the soldiers, of the comparative health of different stations and ages and climates; investigating the relation of degradation, ignorance, crime, and ill-usage to the efficiency of the army and to its cost, and from that time to the last day of his life devoting his entire energies to devising and doing good to the common soldier.'

In 1809 Marshall was gazetted as assistant-surgeon to the 2nd Ceylon regiment, and in 1813 he was promoted surgeon of the 1st Ceylon regiment. He served in Ceylon till 1821, when he returned home on his appointment to the staff of North Britain. From Edinburgh he removed to Chatham two years afterwards, and in 1825 he crossed to Dublin on the staff of the recruiting depot. In 1838 he acted on the commission for revising the regulations as to the discharge of soldiers from the service. During 1829 he was engaged in the war office, and in 1830 be was appointed deputy-inspector of hospitals, with which rank he retired on half-pay. In 1835 Marshall was directed, together with Sir A. M. Tulloch, to investigate the statistics of the sickness, mortality, and invaliding of the British army, and their