John Marshall (MP for Leeds)

John Marshall (28 December 1797 – 31 October 1836) was an English politician, the Member of Parliament for Leeds (1832–1835).[1] He was the second son of the wealthy industrialist John Marshall who introduced major innovations in flax spinning and built the celebrated Marshall's Mill and Temple Works in Leeds, West Yorkshire.[2] His eldest brother William was MP for Beverley,[3] Carlisle[4] and East Cumberland[5] and his next younger brother James Garth was a later MP for Leeds.[1] The fourth brother, Henry Cowper, was Mayor of Leeds in 1842–1843.[2] A sister, Julia Anne Elliott, was a hymnwriter.

Marshall married Mary Dykes, daughter of Joseph Ballantyne Dykes from Cockermouth, Cumbria, and they had five children. Their youngest son Julian was a noted music and print collector and writer.[6]

  1. ^ a b "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "L": Leeds". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 19 December 2012. Retrieved 17 July 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ a b Gilleghan, John (2001). "Marshall, John". Leeds: A to Z of local history. Kingsway Press. pp. 166–167. ISBN 0-9519194-3-1.
  3. ^ "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "B": Beverley". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ^ "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "C": Carlisle (Cumberland)". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 31 October 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. ^ "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "C": Cumberland East". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 24 September 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  6. ^ Searle, Arthur (September 2004). "Marshall, Julian (1836–1903)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34897. Retrieved 17 July 2008. (online available to subscribers; also in print)