James Garth Marshall

James Garth Marshall (20 February 1802 – 22 October 1873) was an English Liberal Party politician, the Member of Parliament for Leeds (1847–1852).[1]

He was the third 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 eldest brother, John, was an earlier 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 bought the Monk Coniston estate, near Coniston, Cumbria, from the Knott family in 1835.[6] He later created the celebrated landscape of Tarn Hows by constructing a dam to merge three existing small tarns into the present body of water, at the same time supplying water power to his sawmill in Yewdale.[7] The estate was later bought by Beatrix Potter and eventually passed to the National Trust.[6]

In 1860-61 he served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire.[8]

Works

• Marshall, James Garth (1854). Minorities and Majorities; Their Relative Rights. A Letter to Lord John Russell, M.P. on Parliamentary Reform (2 ed.). London: James Ridgway.

References

1. "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "L": Leeds". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 14 September 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2008.
2. 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.
4. "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "C": Carlisle (Cumberland)". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 13 June 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2008.
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.
6. "Coniston and Tarn Hows: a brief history". National Trust. Archived from the original on 19 July 2008. Retrieved 17 July 2008.
7. "Tarn Hows - Lake District". Landscape Images. Archived from the original on 27 August 2008. Retrieved 17 July 2008.
8. "No. 22348". The London Gazette. 23 January 1860. p. 213.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by James Garth Marshall
• Archival material at Leeds University Library

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by William Aldam William Beckett	Member of Parliament for Leeds 1847–1852 With: William Beckett	Succeeded by Matthew Talbot Baines George Goodman