James Garth Marshall
1802–73
Industrialist and politician. Son of the wealthy industrialist John Marshall (1765–1845; ODNB), and father of Victor Marshall. Liberal MP for Leeds, 1847–52. Known for his innovations in flax spinning and the improvement of the education and welfare of the workers at his mills in Holbeck, Leeds. Bought the Monk Coniston estate near Coniston in the Lake District in 1835, and created the celebrated landscape of Tarn Hows.
Sources
‘History and restoration of Lakeland estate’, Cumberland & Westmorland Herald, 20 March 2008 (www.cwherald.com/a/archive/history-and-restoration-of-lakeland-estate.305411.html, accessed 29 January 2018)
London, England, Church of England marriages and banns, 1754–1932 (Ancestry.co.uk, accessed 20 November 2018)
Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 38 (1874): 317–20
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