W. F. Marshall

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Reverend W.F. Marshall (1888 - January 1959) was a Presbyterian Minister and poet from Sixmilecross, County Tyrone, Ireland.

Marshall was educated at Royal School Dungannon and then Queens College Galway. He served as a Presbyterian Minister at Castlerock, County Londonderry for over thirty years.

Marshall was a leading authority on the Ulster Scots dialect and broadcast a series on the BBC entitled Ulster Speech. A prolific writer and poet, he also wrote Ulster Sails West, a book on people from Ulster who settled in North America during the 18th century.

The W.F. Marshall Summer School is an annual event held at Magee College in Londonderry in honour of Marshall.