Outram Marshall was born in India, the third son of Thomas Marshall, Esquire, of Sukkur, in the Bombay Presidency of British India. 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.
Life and 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. He then became Organising Secretary of the English Church Union, an Anglo-Catholicadvocacy group within the Church of England. In 1883, at Christchurch, Hampshire, Marshall married Emilie Susannah Loder Strange, born 1854, the daughter of William James Stevenson Strange, a Manufacturer, and his wife Emily Sophia. Their daughter Emilie Louisa Loder was born in Kensington in 1884. W. J. S. Strange was described as a gentleman when he died at Frome in 1900. 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. In 1915, during the First World War, while the Marshalls were living at Pinewood, Woking, their only daughter, Emilie, married Major Alfred Hopewell Pullman, of the Royal West Kent Regiment, a decorated Boer War officer who a few months later gained the DSO for gallantry at the Battle of Loos. A grandson, Alfred Outram Pullman, was born in May 1916. In March 1918, Major Pullman retired from the army, due to ill health caused by the war, and joined the Marshall family at Woking. Young Alfred’s sister Beatrice was born on 13 July of the same year. 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. Marshall died on 14 February 1932, still living at Pinewood, Oriental Road, Woking, leaving an estate valued at £3,296. On 16 January 1936, his widow Emilie Marshall also died, leaving a much larger estate of £9,207,, with probate being granted to their daughter Emilie.
Descendants
In June 1945, Marshall’s grandson Alfred Outram Pullman married Audrey Evelyn Merrifield, the daughter of another Church of England clergyman. They had two sons, Philip Pullman, born in 1946, and Francis, born in 1949. Marshall’s granddaughter Beatrice Pullman lived with her mother, Emilie, until her death in Worthing in 1969, then the next year married Joseph West.
