Theodore Marshall (1846–1909) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1908.

Life

He was born on 8 March 1843 at 9 Fettes Row the son of John Marshall, advocate (later known as Lord Curriehill) and his wife, Margaret Tod Bell daughter of Rev Andrew Bell of

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. He was educated at

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and

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, then studied at

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and

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, graduating MA in 1864. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of

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in 1867 and served as assistant at St Stephen's Church in

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. He was ordained as minister of Caputh in Perthshire in February 1869 under the patronage of

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and remained there until 1893. He then followed in the footsteps of Very Rev

K. M. Phin Kenneth Macleay Phin (1816–1888) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1877. He ran the Church of Scotland’s Home Mission Scheme. As a church campaigner and pamphleteer he was ...

and ran the Church of Scotland's Home Mission Service based at 22 Queen Street in

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. He lived at Linkswood,

Davidsons Mains Davidson's Mains is a former village and now a district in the north-west of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is adjacent to the districts of Barnton, Edinburgh, Barnton, Cramond, Silverknowes, Blackhall, Edinburgh, Blackhall and Corbiehill/House O'Hill ...

in western Edinburgh. He died on a train travelling from Perth to Crieff on 1 May 1909. Because he died during his tenancy as Moderator he remained styled as Right Reverend (Very Reverend being the style for former Moderators). He is buried in Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh. The grave lies on the north side of the central gap between the original cemetery and the first northern extension. His grave wrongly terms him Very Reverend. He is also memorialised on his parents' grave in St Cuthberts Churchyard in the city centre, where he is correctly titled Right Rev.

Family

He was married to Anne Nicholson (1846–1939) at 3 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh on 21 July 1869. She was the daughter of Rev Dr Maxwell Nicholson of St Stephen's Church in

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Memorials

The baptismal font at

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is dedicated to his memory.

References

1846 births 1909 deaths People educated at Loretto School, Musselburgh People educated at Edinburgh Academy 19th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Burials at the Dean Cemetery 20th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland {{Scotland-reli-bio-stub