John Hannath Marshall (1 October 1837 – 2 February 1879) was an English

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and a

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who played

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for

Cambridge Town Club Cambridge Town Club (CTC) was a first-class cricket club established in Cambridge before 1817. Among notable players who represented CTC were Tom Hayward senior, Robert Carpenter and George Tarrant. It co-existed with Cambridge University Cri ...

and

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. He was born in

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and died at

Kaiteriteri Kaiteriteri is a town and seaside resort in the Tasman Region of the South Island of New Zealand. It is close to both Mārahau, the main gateway to Abel Tasman National Park, and the town of Motueka. Kaiteriteri is a small coastal town re ...

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. Marshall was educated at

King Edward's School, Birmingham King Edward's School (KES) is an independent school (UK), independent day school for boys in the British Public school (UK), public school tradition, located in Edgbaston, Birmingham. Founded by Edward VI of England, King Edward VI in 1552, it ...

, and at

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...

. His first first-class cricket match as a tail-end right-handed batsman for Cambridge Town Club in 1857 also featured his elder brother,

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, who played for Cambridge University between 1855 and 1857, winning three

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for cricket. John Marshall then won a Blue himself as a middle-order batsman for Cambridge University in 1859, appearing in the

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against

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and top-scoring with an unbeaten 38 in the first innings: he scored just 7 in the second innings in a low-scoring game that Cambridge won by 28 runs. Marshall did not play in first-class cricket for Cambridge University after 1859; most of the rest of his cricket was for Cambridgeshire, then considered one of the major cricketing county sides, and his highest score was an unbeaten 47 in the home match against

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in 1861. He later played in minor matches for

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Personal life

Marshall graduated from

in 1860 and, after a short spell as a schoolmaster at

King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds King Edward VI School is a co-educational comprehensive secondary school in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England. The school in its present form was created in 1972 by the merging of King Edward VI Grammar School, with the Silver Jubilee Girls Scho ...

, he was ordained as a

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clergyman in 1864. The year before he married Emily Louisa Merielina Rogers, the daughter of a clergyman in

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, they went on to have four sons and a daughter including

Patrick Marshall Patrick Marshall (1869 – November 1950) was a geologist who lived in New Zealand. Benson W. N. (1951). "Patrick Marshall". ''Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand'' 79''152–155 Early life Marshall was born on 22 ...

, a

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, and

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, a clergyman and sportsman. Marshall was appointed as curate at

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to 1868, then

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for a year; he was vicar of

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, Suffolk from 1869 to 1871. He retired first to

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and

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then to New Zealand because of tuberculosis and died in

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, aged 41.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Marshall, John Hannath 1837 births 1879 deaths English cricketers Cambridge University cricketers Cambridge Town Club cricketers People educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge 19th-century English Anglican priests Sportspeople from Cambridge Gentlemen of the North cricketers 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in New Zealand