John Maitland Marshall (below) was born in Tavistock, Devon on 24 August 1859.  His birth certificate can be viewed here (<--- PDF).  He married Emma Catherine (Kitty) Man, on 24 June 1884, in Brixton, Lambeth, the daughter of Morrice King Man.  The 1901 Census record for the Marshall family can be accessed here (<--- PDF).  Though he sold the family firm, Marshal & Co., educational publishers, (see below) he maintained his interest in education and became Chairman of the Governors of both Dulwich College and Benenden School.  John and Kitty lived first at 10 Herne Hill and moved to The Grove, Dulwich Village after his father, John Marshall, died.  John Maitland Marshall died on 24 June 1933 in Dulwich.

John Marshall, father of John Maitland Marshall, was born on 1 January 1833 in Tiverton in Devon, the son of John Marshall, a carpenter and died on 10 May 1910 in West Norwood, Lambeth.  A genealogy of the Marshall family can be viewed here (<--- PDF). The 1851 census showing John Marshall and family can be viewed here (<--- PDF).  The story goes that he, as a child, used to deliver his father's work by handcart.  A spinster lady who saw that he was always avidly reading, befriended him and paid for his education.  John married Anna Dennis on 18 June 1857 and moved to London.  She was born in Tiverton on 24 February 1834 and died about 1875.  He founded alms houses in Tavistock in her memory and John Maitland Marshall had gates erected.  He married secondly Amelia ???? in about 1885 and she died in about 1905.  John lived in West Norwood, and became a publisher of educational books through his firm, Marshall & Co, with offices at 42 Paternoster Row (adjacent to St. Paul's).  The business was sold after his death, but continued until the premises were bombed during the Second World War and presumably all the firm's records destroyed.  There are no records of the firm at the Guildhall Library.  It is said that he invented the 'times table' and a sample of the firm's exercise book exists in the family. John died on 7 May 1910 at 'The Oaks', Gipsy Road, Norwood and his death certificate  can be viewed here (<--- PDF).

The firm was in existence in 1867 since a family diary for that year (Eliza Ebden, grandmother of William Sydenham's) lists the firms which sold it, Simpkin, Marshall & Co including Hatchards & Co.  So if the latter firm was the precursor of Marshall and Co, John Marshall must have been established in London by 1867.