Educated at the Middlesex Hospital, where he was obstetric house physician, and in Brussels, he was a clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital and specialised as an ophthalmologist. He practised at Trealaw, Rhondda, Glamorgan, South Wales and was ophthalmic surgeon to the Urban Dis

Born on 3 March 1876 at Blandford, Dorset, the third child and eldest son of James Marshall, who was in business there, and Emily Cole his wife, he was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won a certificate of honour in anatomy in 1896. Marshall was at f