Marshall House has been the President's Lodge at

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, since 2001. It was designed by the Scottish architect J. J. Stevenson and built in 1886. It is a Grade II listed building. In 1991 the college bought Balliol Croft, a neighbouring house to its grounds and former home of the economist Alfred Marshall and his wife Mary Paley Marshall, with whom he wrote his first economics textbook. He was a

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at St John's College, Cambridge, she at

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. The building was renamed Marshall House in his honour and used for student accommodation. In 2001 it was converted back to its original layout and used as the President's Lodge.

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