Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Marshall, Edward
MARSHALL, EDWARD (1578–1675), statuary and master-mason, born in 1578, appears to have sprung from a Nottinghamshire branch of the Marshall family. He was admitted to the freedom of the Masons' Company in January 1626, and to the livery in 1631–2. He resided, as a 'stonecutter,' in Fetter Lane, and became master-mason to Charles II after the Restoration. Marshall was much employed as a tomb-maker, and executed among others the monuments of William, earl of Devonshire, and his countess (1628) at Derby. Sir Robert Barkham and family (1644) at Tottenham, Sir Dudley Digges at Chatham. The line tomb to the Cutts family at Swavesey in Cambridgeshire is by Marshall or his son Joshua [see below], Marshall died on 10 Dec. 1675 in London, and was buried in the church of St. Dunstan-in-the-West, where a monument remains to his memory. He was twice married, and by his first wife Anne (d. 1673) he had nine sons and five daughters, of whom only the eldest son Joshua survived him. He married secondly Margaret, daughter of John White, and widow of Henry Parker of Barnet, while daughter Margaret had been married to Marshall's younger son Henry (d. 1674).
Marshall, Joshua (1629–1678), statuary and master-mason, eldest son of the above, was born in London in 1629. He succeeded his father as master-mason. In that capacity he executed the pedestal designed by Grinling Gibbons [q. v.] for the statue of Charles I at Charing Cross, and was also employed in the building of Temple Bar in 1670. He had a large practice as a tomb-maker, executing among others the monuments to Richard Brownlow [q. v.], prothonotary, at Belton in Lincolnshire, and to Edward, lord Nevil, and his wife at Campden in Gloucestershire, He married Katherine, daughter of John George, citizen of London, died 6 April 1678, aged 49, and was buried with his father in the church of St. Dunstan-in-the-West, He left two surviving sons, Edward and John, and a daughter Anne, married to Richard Somers of the Inner Temple.
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Marshall's Miscellaneous Marescalliana; Denham's St. Dunstan's-in-the-West; Noble's Hist. of Temple Bar; Gent. Mag. 1851, pt. i. p. 10; information from G. W. Marshall, esq., LL.D.]