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Marshall, F. (Francis), 1845-1906


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    • Marshall, Francis, 1845-1906
    • Marshall, Frank, 1845-1906
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    • found: Acts of the Apostles, 1907:title page (F. Marshall, Rev., M.A., late exhibitioner of St. John's College, Cambridge; Rector of Mileham; formerly vice-principal of the Training College, Carmothan and late master of Almondbury Grammar School)
    • found: Football: the Rugby Union game, 1925:title page (the late Rev. F. Marshall) page vii (the late Rev. Frank Marshall)
    • found: The school and college St. Matthew, 1921:title page (Rev. F. Marshall, M.A.; late exhibitioner of St John's College, Cambridge; rector of Mileham, formerly Vice-Principal of the Training College, Carmarthen, and lately Head Master of Almondbury Grammar School)
    • found: OCLC, October 15, 2008(hdg.: Marshall, Francis, 1847-1906; usage: F. Marshall)
    • found: Wikipedia, viewed November 25, 2019(Frank Marshall (rugby referee); Francis Marshall known as Frank Marshall (1846/7-April 21, 1906) was a British schoolmaster, cleric and rugby administrator; a fierce advocate of amateurism in the early years of rugby football, his hardline position on payments to players contributed to the schism in the game in 1895 and the birth of the breakaway Rugby League; born in West Bromwich, he studied at St. John's College, Cambridge; the headmaster of Almondbury Grammar School, he believed rugby was a middle class pastime; died April 21, 1906 at Mileham)
    • found: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, viewed November 25, 2019(Marshall, Francis [Frank] (1845-1906); rugby administrator and schoolmaster; born on September 19, 1845, West Bromwich, Staffordshire; entered St John's College, Cambridge, in 1864, graduating BA as thirty-eighth wrangler in the mathematical tripos in 1868; he proceeded MA in 1880; he was ordained in 1869 and between 1868 and 1870 was vice-principal of Carmarthen Training College; from 1870 to 1878 he was headmaster of Wednesbury Collegiate School and in 1878 was appointed head of King James's Grammar School in Almondbury, near Huddersfield, in Yorkshire; he had played rugby as a schoolboy, but it was only when he took up the headmastership at Almondbury that he began to make his mark on the game; he became a well-respected referee; following his election to the committee of the Yorkshire Rugby Union (YRU) in 1887 he sort to exorcize the evil of professionalism from rugby; in 1890 he was elected president of the YRU; in 1893 he was instrumental in helping to suspend his own club, Huddersfield, for breaches of rugby's amateur code, an act which estranged him from any remaining sympathizers in Yorkshire rugby union; in 1896 he left Almondbury to become rector of Mileham in Norfolk; he died there on April 19, 1906)
    • found: Alumni Cantabrigienses, volume 2, 2011:page 332 (Marshall, Francis; college: St John's; born: September 22, 1845 in West Bromwich; B.A. 1868; M.A. 1880; ord. deacon (St Davids) 1868; priest, 1869; rector of Mileham, 1896-1906; devoted his leisure to the production of school text-books on the Bible and on mathematics; also edited a history of rugby football; died April 21, 1906)
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