Major-General George Frederick Leycester Marshall (27 March 1843

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, Salop – 7 March 1934) was the son of William Marshall (a clergyman) and his wife Louisa Sophia, also brother of C. H. T. Marshall and uncle of

Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall Sir Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall FRS (20 December 1871 in Amritsar, Punjab – 8 April 1959 in London), was an Indian-born British entomologist. He was an expert on African and oriental weevils.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (201 ...

. He became a Colonel in the

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and was a naturalist interested in the birds and butterflies of India. Marshall described several new species of butterflies, along with

Lionel de Nicéville Charles Lionel Augustus de Nicéville (1852 in Bristol – 3 December 1901 in Calcutta from malaria) was a curator at the Indian Museum in Calcutta (now Kolkata). He studied the butterflies of the Indian Subcontinent and wrote a three volume mono ...

, and discovered the white-tailed iora, sometimes referred to as Marshall's iIora. He wrote ''The butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon''. Marshall retired from the Royal (late Bengal) Engineers in November 1897. Marshall married Elizabeth Huntley Muir (1851, Agra - 1913) at Allahabad in 1874. One son George Leycester Knox (born 1875) died young at Simla on 20 July 1883. Marshall was made CIE in the

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Works

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*1883 with de Nicéville, L. ''Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon''. Vol. 1. Repr. 1979, New Delhi, 327 pp. *1886. ''The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon''. Vol. 2. Repr. 1979, New Delhi, 332 pp. *1890. ''The butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon''. Vol. 3. Repr. 1979, New Delhi, 503 pp.

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* The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon
Volume 1Volume 2Volume 3

Birds' nesting in India. A calendar of the breeding seasons, and a popular guide to the habits and haunts of birds. (1877)
British Indian Army generals Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire English lepidopterists 1843 births 1934 deaths English naturalists English ornithologists People from Bridgnorth Military personnel from Shropshire {{UK-army-bio-stub