Sir Archie Pellow Marshall (20 November 1899 – 20 June 1966) was a British Liberal Party politician and High Court Judge.

Background

He was the younger son of Alfred Ernest Stanley Marshall, of

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. He was educated at

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, Cornwall and

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, MA, LLB (Camb.), 1921–25. In 1926 he married Meta Hawke, of

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. They had one son and one daughter. In 1959 he was knighted. He was elected a bard of the Cornish Gorseth in 1963, taking the

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''Brusyas an Gernewyon'' (Judge of the Cornish).

Legal career

He was called to Bar and joined the Midland Circuit in 1925. He took silk becoming a

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in 1947. He became a High Court Judge in 1959. In 1963 he presided over the trial of Dr. Stephen Ward. Geoffrey Robertson, a

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who has written a book on the trial, ''Stephen Ward was Innocent, OK'', says that on more than one significant legal point, Marshall misdirected the jurors. The transcript of his summing up, lodged at the National Archives, has been closed and classified as secret until the year 2046. The case has been described as "a gross miscarriage of justice".

Political career

In 1924 he was President of the Cambridge Union. He was also Chairman of

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from 1923 to 1924 and a vice-chairman of the National League of Young Liberals. He was Chairman of the Union of University Liberal Societies from 1924 to 1925. He was Liberal candidate for the King's Norton Division of

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at the 1929 General Election. He was Liberal candidate again for the King's Norton Division at the 1931 General Election. In 1939 he was selected as prospective Liberal parliamentary candidate for a general election expected to take place within a year.The Liberal Magazine, 1939 He was Liberal candidate for the

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Division of

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at the 1945 General Election. He was President of the London Cornish Association.

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The National Portrait Gallery has portrait of Marshall. {{DEFAULTSORT:Marshall, Archibald Pellow 1899 births 1966 deaths Liberal Party (UK) parliamentary candidates 20th-century English judges People educated at Truro School Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 20th-century King's Counsel Politicians from Cornwall Presidents of the Cambridge Union Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division judges Bards of Gorsedh Kernow Knights Bachelor