Arthur Featherstone Marshall (9 January 1828 – at least 1883)British Library, Archive of the Royal Literary Fund, Loan 96 RLF 1/2177. was an English

Anglican Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...

priest who converted to

Roman Catholicism The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwide . It is am ...

in the 1860s.

Life

He was the son of John Marshall, who in the premiership of Sir Robert Peel was government agent for colonising New South Wales. His elder brother Thomas William Marshall (1818–1877) was also a Roman Catholic convert and controversialist. Marshall abandoned his curacy at Liverpool to become a Roman Catholic in the early 1860s. He subsequently published satirical (mostly pseudonymous) material on the Anglican principle of comprehensiveness and a trenchant criticism of opponents of the

First Vatican Council The First Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the First Vatican Council or Vatican I was convoked by Pope Pius IX on 29 June 1868, after a period of planning and preparation that began on 6 December 1864. This, the twentieth ecu ...

, especially Old Catholics. Specific Anglican tenets he singles out for attack include the Branch theory and the sacramental validity of Anglican ministry and holy orders. In November 1883 he applied unsuccessfully to the

Royal Literary Fund The Royal Literary Fund (RLF) is a benevolent fund that gives assistance to published British writers in financial difficulties. Founded in 1790, and granted a royal charter in 1818, the Fund has helped an extensive roll of authors through its long ...

Bibliography

*Pseud.
The Comedy of Convocation in the English Church
in Two Scenes, edited by Archdeacon Chasuble. (1868) *Pseud.
The 'Old Catholics' at Cologne
by Herr Fröhlich (1873) *The Oxford Undergraduate of Twenty Years Ago (1874) *The Comedy of English Protestantism in Three Acts: Scene—Exeter Hall, London, Time—the Summer of 1893 (1894)

References

* Contains a brief biographical article on A. F. Marshall {{DEFAULTSORT:Marshall, Arthur Featherstone 1818 births 1883 deaths Anglican priest converts to Roman Catholicism 19th-century English Anglican priests English Roman Catholics History of Catholicism in England