James Marshall (minister)

Born at Rothesay, Bute, on 23 February 1796, he was the son of Hugh Marshall, a doctor who died in 1806, and his wife Elizabeth Wilson.

[3] Members of his family dying within this period are buried in St Cuthberts Churchyard at the west end of Princes Street.

[2] Marshall published sermons and addresses, Inward Revival, or Motives and Hindrances to Advancement in Holiness, Edinburgh, 1840, and Early Piety illustrated in the Life and Death of a Young Parishioner, both popular works.

[1] The monument to Marshall's wife and children lies in St Cuthbert's Churchyard at the west end of Princes Street Gardens in central Edinburgh.

The sandstone face of the memorial is heavily eroded and only Rev James Marshall's name (as owner of the plot) is legible.