Thomas Outram Marshall (1843 – 14 February 1932), known as Outram Marshall, was a

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clergyman, an active supporter of the

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who became Organising Secretary of the

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Early life and education

Outram Marshall was born in India, the third son of Thomas Marshall, of

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, in the Bombay Presidency of

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, ''Alumni Oxonienses (1715–1886)'', vol. 3 (Oxford: James Parker & Co, 1891)
p. 918
/ref> On 12 October 1861, aged eighteen, he matriculated at

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, as a

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of the college, and held his scholarship until 1866, when he graduated BA. Marshall was a contemporary at Oxford of the

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student

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, whom he took under his wing on the Canadian’s arrival in 1862.

Career

Marshall was ordained a

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of the Church of England in 1866 and a priest the next year. He was

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, from 1866 to 1869, and after that until 1872 curate of Frome Selwood. He then became Organising Secretary of the

, an

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within the Church of England. Marshall was

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of the

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s of St Nicholas,

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, and of

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with Tunstall, in the

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, which meant having the right to choose the parish priest. In 1911, he gave the patronage of Perivale to the Society for the Maintenance of the Faith, and in 1928 also gave the Society that of Roos. In 1917, Marshall wrote to the Church League for Women Suffrage on behalf of the Church Union to object to suggestions that the Church Union to some degree supported admitting women to the priesthood.

Personal life

In 1883, Marshall married Emilie Susannah Loder Strange, born 1854, the daughter of manufacturer William James Stevenson Strange. Their only child, Emilie Louisa Loder was born in

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in 1884. In 1915, during the

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, while the Marshalls were living at Pinewood, Oriental Road,

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, their daughter Emilie married Major Alfred Hopewell Pullman, of the

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, a decorated

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officer who a few months later gained the DSO for gallantry at the

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."Major A. H. Pullman D.S.O." (obituary) in ''The Queen’s Own Gazette'', no. 824, May 1942, In March 1918, Pullman retired from the army due to ill health caused by the war, and joined the Marshall family at Woking. Marshall died on 14 February 1932, still living at Pinewood, leaving an estate valued at £3,296.MARSHALL the reverend Thomas Outram of Pinewood Oriental-road Woking Surrey clerk
in Probate Index for England and Wakes, 1932, at probatesearch.service.gov.uk, accessed 3 May 2020

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Marshall, Thomas Outram 1843 births 1932 deaths 19th-century English Anglican priests 20th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of New College, Oxford British people in colonial India People from Woking