Sir James Marshall (1829–1889) was a Scottish Anglican clergyman who converted to Roman Catholicism and became Chief Justice of the Gold Coast, now Ghana.

[1] After taking a degree at Exeter College, Oxford, he became a High Church Anglican minister in 1852 and was appointed curate in Trysull, near Wolverhampton.

[1] On the breaking out of the Ashanti War in 1874, he secured the chiefs' assent to the impressment of their tribesmen, and was of great use throughout the campaign in raising levies.

[1] Marshall believed that the Gold Coast offered a very favourable environment for the return of Roman Catholic missionaries.

[1] He died on 9 August 1889, aged 60,[1][6] and was buried in the churchyard cemetery at St Mary Magdalen’s Roman Catholic Church Mortlake.

[8] The Knights and Ladies of Marshall, a lay association of Ghanaian Catholics, visit the church in Mortlake annually to celebrate a Mass in his memory.