Henry Cowper Marshall (1808–84)

Businessman and politician. Son of the wealthy industrialist John Marshall (1765–1845; ODNB). Married Catherine Anne Lucy Spring Rice in 1837. Senior member of Marshall and Company, flax spinners, Holbeck, Leeds. Owner of Derwent Island and St Herbert’s Island in the Lake District. Mayor of Leeds, 1842–3; president, Leeds Chamber of Commerce, 1854.

Sources

BMD (Death index)

Burke’s peerage s.v. Monteagle

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/4570/27/47)

England & Wales, non-conformist and non-parochial registers, 1567–1970 (Ancestry.co.uk, accessed 20 November 2018)

West Cumberland Times, 18 October 1884