Modern English biography

_part_ 14, _portrait_; _Theatrical times_, _ii_ 169, 194 (1847), _portrait_. MARSTON, HENRY, stage name of Richard Henry Marsh (son of a physician). _b._ Highworth, Wiltshire, March 1804; ed. at Winchester; appeared as Romeo at Southampton 18 Aug. 1824, and as Florian in The foundling of the forest at Salisbury 18 June 1825; made his début in London at Drury Lane 30 Oct. 1839 as Benedick in Much ado about nothing; acted Triboulet the jester in W. E. Burton’s The Court Fool at Sadler’s Wells 11 May 1840; took a leading part in Samuel Phelps’s Shakespearean revivals at Sadler’s Wells 1844–61, made a great success as Mephistopheles in Faust; played Iago at Princess’s 18 June 1863, Frank Rochford in Westland Marston’s Pure Gold at Sadler’s Wells 10 Nov. 1863, Charles V. in Oxenford’s The monastery of St. Just at Princess’s 25 June 1864; acted Henry IV. at Drury Lane 24 Sep. 1864, Belarius in Cymbeline at Queen’s 30 March 1872, and Sergius Dentatus in Virginius at Queen’s 20 April 1872; played Farmer Dodd in C. Wilson’s Lost or Found at Holborn 21 Dec. 1872; a special performance of Much ado about nothing was given at Lyceum theatre for his benefit 29 May 1879; master of the Urban lodge of freemasons to 25 Feb. 1870; elected annuitant on royal masonic benevolent institution 16 May 1879. _d._ 4 Lidlington place, Oakley sq. London 23 March 1883. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Tallis’s Drawing room table books_, _parts_ 9 _and_ 18, 2 _portraits_; _Theatrical times_, _i_ 201 (1847), _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _xi_ 280, 318 (1879), _portrait_. MARSTON, JOHN WESTLAND (son of Stephen Marston, baptist minister). _b._ Boston, Lincs. 30 Jany. 1819; articled to his maternal uncle a London solicitor 1834; edited with John Saunders The National Magazine, vols. 1 and 2, 1856–7; author of the following plays The patrician’s daughter produced at Drury Lane 10 Dec. 1842; The heart and the world 1847; Strathmore 1849; Philip of France and Marie de Miranie 1850; Anne Blake 1852; A life’s ransom, Lyceum 16 Feb. 1857; A hard struggle, Lyceum 1 Feb. 1858; The wife’s portrait, Haymarket 15 March 1862; Pure Gold, Sadler’s Wells 10 Nov. 1863; Donna Diana, his best play Princess’s 16 Jany. 1864; The favourite of fortune, Haymarket 2 April 1866; A hero of romance, Haymarket 14 March 1868; Life for life, Lyceum 6 March 1869; Lamed for life, Royalty 12 June 1871; Put to the test, Olympic 24 Feb. 1873; Under fire, Vaudeville 1 April 1885; contributed much poetical criticism to the Athenæum from about 1863; LL.D. Glasgow univ. 1863; received £928 from a benefit performance of Werner at Lyceum theatre 1 June 1887; author of Gerald, a dramatic poem, and other poems 1842; A lady in her own right: a novel 1860; Family credit and other tales 1861; The wife’s portrait and other tales 1869; Dramatic and other works, collective edition 2 vols. 1876; Our recent actors 2 vols. 1888. _d._ at his lodgings, 191 Euston road, London 5 Jany. 1890. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _ii_ 159–86 (1844); _T. Powell’s Pictures of living authors of Britain_ (1851) 201–206; _I.L.N. 25 Jany. 1890 p._ 111, _portrait_; _London Figaro 18 Jany. 1890 p._ 6, _portrait_. MARSTON, PHILIP BOURKE (only son of the preceding). _b._ 123 Camden road villas, Camden Town, London 13 Aug. 1850; lost his eyesight 1853; author of Song-Tide and other poems 1871; All in all 1875; Wind Voices 1883; For a song’s sake and other stories 1887; Garden Secrets 1887; A last harvest 1891; he is the subject of a poem by Mrs. Craik entitled Philip my King, and of a poem by T. G. Hake entitled The blind boy. _d._ 191 Euston road, London 13 Feb. 1887. _Memoirs of P. B. Marston. By L. C. Moulton and W. Sharp, prefixed to A last harvest_ (1891) _and For a song’s sake_ (1887); _The collected poems of P. B. Marston, with biographical sketch and portrait_ (1892). MARTEN, THOMAS. _b._ 1797; cornet 2 life guards 22 Nov. 1813, captain 4 May 1822; captain 1 dragoons 14 April 1825, lieut.-col. 29 May 1835 to 4 Feb. 1853 when placed on h.p.; col. 6 dragoons 12 Nov. 1860 to death; L.G. 16 Feb. 1862; K.H. 1837. _d._ Beverley, Yorkshire 22 Nov. 1868. MARTIN, ALBINUS. _b._ Beckington, Somerset 21 March 1791; an architect; erected with S. Beasley the first English opera house in Wellington st. Strand opened 15 June 1816; manager and resident engineer of London and Southampton railway 1836–49; a consulting engineer 1849–64; M.I.C.E. 5 June 1849. _d._ 17 Oct.