SOME OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE SOCIETY. 
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social affairs. Among the earliest advocates of popular and ultimatel}^ 
of state education, he showed the value which he put upon the 
instruction of the young by erecting, along with other members of 
his firm, schools in Holbeck, intended for the multitudes of children 
who have passed through their extensive factories ; and he personally 
attended to them. He built and endowed the church of St. John 
the Evangelist, Holbeck, 1850, of which, Sir G. Scott was the 
architect, and the Rev. AV. Banks was afterwards incumbent. From 
1847 he represented Leeds in Parliament as representative of state 
education in the House of Commons until 1852, and then retired, 
his place being taken by Rt. Hon. ]\L Talbot Baines. Afterwards 
he supported Mr. Edward Baines. He was in favour of the ballot, 
and supported Mr. Hall's scheme when the Reform Bill was passed 
in 1867. He founded the Leeds Social Improvement Society. He 
was a county magistrate and deputy lieutenant. His scientific and 
mechanical knowledge was considerable. The latter found ample 
scope in comiection with his professional business, and the former in 
literary contributions on geology and other branches of science, read 
before the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society, the Leeds 
Philosophical Society, and other institutions. For many years he 
acted as one of the honorary curators of the Philosophical Society. 
Mr. Marshall was one of the founders of the West Riding 
Geological and Polytechnic Society, and a vice-president to the time 
of his death. When, in 1843, it was proposed to remove the contents 
of the museum from Wakefield to some Philosophical Society in the 
West Riding, Mr. Marshall was active in assisting in the negotia- 
tions to transfer the collections to Leeds, and after their removal 
became joint curator along with Mr. Embleton, and for the thirty 
succeeding years held the office. Occasionally he presided at the 
meetings of the society. He married the daughter of Lord Monteagle ; 
liis brother, Mr. H. C. Marshall married her sister. 
Disraeli in ' Sybil ' gives a description of the Marshall works. 
Although singularly retiring in manner, and not fluent as an orator, 
Mr. Marshall, when he spoke in public was always listened to with 
marked respect ; his opinions being invariably based upon solid 
information and independent thought. Like his father he had no 
