Captain Frederick Marshall
(1829-1900)
17 December 1860

Volume 2, page 120, sitting 1779.

[Identified in the Silvy daybooks as 'Capt. F. Marshall,' a pencilled inscription verso identifies the sitter as 'Fred. Marshall' of the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards.]

Born on 26 July 1829, Frederick Marshall was the third son of George Marshall of Broadwater, Godalming [Surrey] and Sarah née Alexander. He was baptised on 23 September 1829 at St Peter and St Paul in Godalming. 

According to Hart's Army List (1860), 'Captain Marshall served in the Crimea during Sept, 1855 as Aide de Camp to Sir James Scarlett (Medal and Clasp for Sebastopol).'

On 16 December 1861 at St Paul's in Knightsbridge Captain Frederick Marshall of the 2nd Life Guards married Adelaide Laura, youngest daughter of Edward Gyles Howard, Esq., and niece of the 12th Duke of Norfolk. 

Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Marshall died, aged 70, on 8 June 1900. He was buried at Brockwood Cemetery in Surrey. According to a lengthy obituary in the Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser (16 June 1900): 'Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Marshall died on Friday afternoon at his residence, 9, Eaton Place, S.W., from an attack of pneumonia. [...] He was educated at Eton and entered the Army as a cornet of horse in the 2nd Life Guards on September 18, 1849, and served in the Crimea as aide-de-camp to Sir James Scarlett, receiving the medal with clasp for Sebastopol and the Turkish medal. [...] During the Zulu war of 1879 Major-General Marshall was in command of the Cavalry Brigade, and after the dissolution of the brigade he was in command of the advanced posts on the lines of communications. For this service he received the medal, and on September 24, 1887, was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George. He had previously [...] been promoted to lieutenant-general on his retirement from the active list. On March 29, 1890, he was made colonel of the 1st Dragoons, of which regiment the German Emperor is the colonel-in-chief, and on June 22, 1897 [...] he was made KCMG. Sir Fredrick Marshall was master of the Chiddingford Foxhounds, a member of the Surrey County Council, a director of the London and South Western Railway Company and a magistrate for Surrey.' The article continues with a detailed description of his funeral.