James Garth Marshall (20 February 1802 – 22 October 1873) was an English Liberal Party politician, the Member of Parliament for Leeds (1847–1852).
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. His eldest brother William was MP for Beverley, Carlisle and East Cumberland and his next eldest brother, John, was an earlier MP for Leeds. The fourth brother, Henry Cowper, was Mayor of Leeds in 1842–1843. A sister, Julia Anne Elliott, was a hymnwriter.
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.
In 1860-61 he served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire.
Works
- Marshall, James Garth (1854). Minorities and Majorities; Their Relative Rights. A Letter to Lord John Russell, M.P. on Parliamentary Reform (2 ed.). London: James Ridgway.
References
- ^ "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "L": Leeds". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 14 September 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2008.
- ^ Gilleghan, John (2001). "Marshall, John". Leeds: A to Z of local history. Kingsway Press. pp. 166–167. ISBN 0-9519194-3-1.
- "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "B": Beverley". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2008.
- "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "C": Carlisle (Cumberland)". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 13 June 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2008.
- "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "C": Cumberland East". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 24 September 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2008.
- ^ "Coniston and Tarn Hows: a brief history". National Trust. Archived from the original on 19 July 2008. Retrieved 17 July 2008.
- "Tarn Hows - Lake District". Landscape Images. Archived from the original on 27 August 2008. Retrieved 17 July 2008.
- "No. 22348". The London Gazette. 23 January 1860. p. 213.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by James Garth Marshall
- Archival material at Leeds University Library
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