Outram Marshall

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Thomas Outram Marshall (1843 – 14 February 1932), known as Outram Marshall, was a Church of England clergyman, an active supporter of the Oxford Movement who became Organising Secretary of the English Church Union.

Early life and education

Outram Marshall was born in India, the third son of Thomas Marshall, of Sukkur, in the Bombay Presidency of British India.Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses (1715–1886), vol. 3 (Oxford: James Parker & Co, 1891), [https://ia800300.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/7/items/AlumniOxoniensesTheMembersOfTheUniversityOfOxford1715-1886Their/Alumni_Oxonienses__the_Members_of_the_Un_jp2.zip&file=Alumni_Oxonienses__the_Members_of_the_Un_jp2/Alumni_Oxonienses__the_Members_of_the_Un_0133.jp2&scale=4&rotate=0 p. 918] On 12 October 1861, aged eighteen, he matriculated at New College, Oxford, as a scholar of the college, and held his scholarship until 1866, when he graduated BA.

Marshall was a contemporary at Oxford of the Mohawk student Oronhyatekha, whom he took under his wing on the Canadian’s arrival in 1862.Keith Jamieson, Michelle A. Hamilton, Dr Oronhyatekha: Security, Justice, and Equality (Dundurn, 2016), [https://books.google.com/books?id=Xp6DQcMHY3gC&pg=PT77 p. 77]

Career

Marshall was ordained a deacon of the Church of England in 1866 and a priest the next year. He was curate at Batcombe, Somerset, from 1866 to 1869, and after that until 1872 curate of Frome Selwood."MARSHALL, Thomas Outram", in George Herring, The Oxford Movement in Practice: The Tractarian Parochial World from the 1830s to the 1870s (Oxford University Press, 2016), p. 312 He then became Organising Secretary of the English Church Union, an Anglo-Catholic advocacy group within the Church of England."Marshall, T. Outram", in Society of the Holy Cross: The Romanising Conspirators at Work (London: Church Association, 1898) [http://anglicanhistory.org/ssc/romanising_conspirators1898.html online] at anglicanhistory.org

Marshall was Patron of the benefices of St Nicholas, Perivale, and of Roos with Tunstall, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 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.[http://www.smftrust.org.uk/directoryDetail.php?id=269 St Nicholas, Perivale] and [http://www.smftrust.org.uk/directoryDetail.php?id=301 All Saints, Roos], at smftrust.org.uk, accessed 3 May 2020

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.[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/928bbf63-d885-46ec-af46-70d3f256402a J Outram Marshall to Rev CG Langdon] [sic] at nationalarchives.gov.uk, accessed 3 May 2020 {{subscription required}}

Personal life

In 1883, Marshall married Emilie Susannah Loder Strange, born 1854, the daughter of manufacturer William James Stevenson Strange.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}} Their only child, Emilie Louisa Loder was born in Kensington in 1884.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}} In 1915, during the First World War, while the Marshalls were living at Pinewood, Oriental Road, Woking, their daughter Emilie married Major Alfred Hopewell Pullman, of the Royal West Kent Regiment,Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, ed. John Debrett, Dean & Son Ltd, 1931 p. 2010"MARRIAGES: Pullman—Marshall — On the 16th June, at St Paul’s, Woking" in The Standard (London), 19 June 1915, p. 1, col. 1 a decorated Boer War officer who a few months later gained the DSO for gallantry at the Battle of Loos."Major A. H. Pullman D.S.O." (obituary) in The Queen’s Own Gazette, no. 824, May 1942, {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20211015193858/http://thequeensownbuffs.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/QO-Gazette-Jan-to-April-1942_OCR.pdf pp. 81, 86–87]}} 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.[https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Marshall&yearOfDeath=1932&page=7#calendar 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

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