Ulpius Marcellus was a Roman consular governor of Britannia who returned there as general of the later 2nd century.
[1] Ulpius Marcellus is recorded as governor of Roman Britain in an inscription of 176–80,[2] and apparently returned to Rome after a tenure without serious incident.
Dio Cassius records that tribes from the north breached Hadrian's Wall which separated them from the empire and killed a general (possibly Marcellus' predecessor, Caerellius Priscus) with all his guards, presumably during an inspection of Hadrian's Wall.
Marcellus undertook punitive raids north of the border and may have attempted to reoccupy the Antonine Wall.
Marcellus was a martinet and the troops in Britain under Commodus were highly mutinous, going so far as to later put forward a pretender to the imperial throne.