Joshua Marshall (sculptor)

As the King's Master Mason at the time of the Great Fire of London, he was responsible for many of the rebuilding projects.

He was born in a house on Fetter Lane in London on 24 June 1628,[1] the eldest son of the sculptor Edward Marshall.

He was appointed Master Mason to the Crown in place of his father, and in that role worked on several royal palaces.

[1] He was the principal builder of The Monument to the Great Fire of London, completed in 1677, and was paid the huge sum of £11,300 for this task out of the total cost of £13,450 (around £1.9 million in 2021)[1] He died in London on 6 April 1678 and was buried at St Dunstan-in-the-West.

They had five children but only one daughter and two sons survived to adulthood: Anne, John and Edward.