MARSHALL, THOMAS WILLIAM
Controversy, no. 11 in June 1818 at Greenwich, d. 14 Dec. 1877 at Surbiton (Surrey). An Anglican, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, then took holy orders and was appointed curate at Swallowcliffe and Anstey (Wiltshire).
In 1844 he published *Notes on the episcopal polity of the holy catholic Church*. The following year he converted to the Catholic faith. From 1847 to 1860 he was inspector of English Catholic schools, a position that enabled him in 1859 to publish the work *Tabulated reports on roman catholic schools, inspected in the south and Cast of England and in South Wales*. Marshall devoted himself especially to the history of Catholic missions, and his most important work is the three-volume *Christian mission* (1862), which went through several editions and translations. Among his other works are *Christianity in China* (1858) and *Catholic missions in southern India* (1865), written in collaboration with the Jesuit W. Strickland. In 1873 he delivered various lectures on the Catholic religion in the United States. Upon his return to England, he published *Protestant journalism* (1874) and contributed to *The Tablet* a series of writings on various religious topics (*Religious contrasts*, 1875–76; *The protestant tradition*, 1876; *Ritualism*, 1877, incomplete).