James Garth Marshall

James Garth Marshall (20 February 1802 - 22 October 1873) was an English Liberal Party politician, the Member of Parliament for Leeds (1847–1852).[1] He was the third son of the wealthy industrialist John Marshall who introduced major innovations in flax spinning and built the celebrated Marshall's Mill and Temple Works in Leeds, West Yorkshire.[2] His eldest brother William was MP for Beverley,[3] Carlisle[4] and East Cumberland[5] and his next eldest brother, John, was an earlier MP for Leeds.[1] The fourth brother, Henry Cowper, was Mayor of Leeds in 1842-1843.[2]

Marshall bought the Monk Coniston estate, near Coniston, Cumbria, from the Knott family in 1835.[6] He later created the celebrated landscape of Tarn Hows by constructing a dam to merge three existing small tarns into the present body of water, at the same time supplying water power to his sawmill in Yewdale.[7] The estate was later bought by Beatrix Potter and eventually passed to the National Trust.[6]

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
William Aldam
William Beckett
Member of Parliament for Leeds
1847-1852
With: William Beckett
Succeeded by
Matthew Talbot Baines
George Goodman