Thomas William Marshall (1818–1877) was a

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convert from

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during the

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controversies. In 1847 he became the first inspector of Catholic Schools in Great Britain. He resigned in 1860 after a controversy due to a pamphlet he wrote critical of Anglican missionary work.

Life

The son of John Marshall, who in the premiership of

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was government agent for colonising

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, he was educated at

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, where he graduated B.A. in 1840. Taking orders in the

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, he was appointed curate of

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and Anstey in

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. In 1845 he joined the Roman Catholic Church, and resigned his curacy. He subsequently became an inspector of schools. About 1873 Marshall made a lecture tour in the United States. He received the degree of LL.D. from

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. Marshall died at

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, on 14 December 1877, and was buried at

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Works

In 1844, before his conversion, Marshall published ''Notes on the Episcopal Polity of the Holy Catholic Church: with some Account of the Development of the Modern Religious Systems''. He published ''Tabulated Reports on Roman Catholic Schools, inspected in the South and East of England and in South Wales'', 1859. A later work by him, ''Christian Missions; their Agents, their Method, and their Results'', 3 vols. London, 1862, went through several editions in the UK and the United States; it was translated into French and other European languages, and

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awarded the author the cross of the

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. His other works include: *''Church Defence''; *''Christianity in China: a fragment'', London, 1858; *''Catholic Missions in Southern India'', London, 1865, with William Strickland; *''My Clerical Friends and their Relation to Modern Thought'', London, 1873; *''Protestant Journalism'' (anon.), London, 1874. *''The Russian Church'' *''Fictitious Appeals to a General Council'' *''Sketches of the Reformation'' *''Two Churches'' *''Modern Science'' He contributed to ''

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'' series of articles on "Religious Contrasts", 1875–6, on "The Protestant Tradition", June–December 1876, and on "Ritualism", 1877 (incomplete).

Family

Marshall married Harriet Dansey, daughter of William Dansey, Rector of

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in Wiltshire. She became a Catholic convert with him.

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1818 births 1877 deaths Anglican priest converts to Roman Catholicism 19th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Georgetown University alumni English Roman Catholics {{RC-bio-stub

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