MARSHALL, Thomas Ansell

Son of Thomas Marshall (see above). Born in Keswick and lived in Edgbaston. Studied at Bridgnorth School and Oxford in both of which he obtained scholarships. Learned Sanskrit and Hebrew. Worked at the British Museum before taking Holy Orders. Became a master at Cheltenham College and afterwards one of the principles of Milford College. Subsequently had various livings in England before moving to Antigua in the West Indies as Bishop’s Chaplain. Lost his wife from fever there and narrowly escaped death himself. Returned to England to live with his sister in Cornwall where he remained until 1897. His last move was to Corsica where he devoted the remainder of his life to entomology. He died at Ajaccio. Marshall’s entomological interests centred mainly on the Ichneumonidae on which he published extensively, (collection in Nottingham Museum) but before that, at the suggestion of Hamlet Clark whose collection he had earlier studied , he wrote a monograph on the Coleoptera ‘Corynodinorum Recensio’ in JournalLSL., 8, 1865, pp.24-50. There are letters and paintings, and ‘Some account of T.A.M’s earlier days’ in the HDO (Smith (1986) p.83) and 5MS leaves on his Hymenoptera collection in the NHM. Pederson (2002) lists correspondence in the RESL. There are obituaries in EMM., 39, 1903, pp.152-53; ERJV., 15, 1903, pp.190-191; and Proc.ESL., 1903, lxxv-vi. (MD 2/04)