COLONEL SIR THOMAS HORATIO MARSHALL, C.B. This photograph was taken  c.1909, when, after a lifetime devoted to the auxiliary forces in Cheshire, Thomas held the rank of Honorary Colonel in the new Territorial Force created by the Act in 1907.

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His great, great grandson says that the decision to exit the world of industry (salt) in the late 19th century was: " made by Sir Thomas Horatio Marshall: 'Personally, I would object to be named as a Salt Manufacturer', he wrote in 1884.  His son, Henry Stapylton Marshall took up the pursuits of the army, travel, hunting etc.  His son, (my grandfather), Thomas Blundell Stapylton Marshall, having failed a trial to play cricket for Somerset, also joined the army before the First World War and was called back from a hunting trip in Africa to join the British Expeditionary Force just ahead of the German advance through Belgium.  He was wounded at Mons, captured and spent the next 4 years in a German POW camp.  I was told recently that his father felt that he had let the side down by allowing himself to be captured. After the war he resigned his commission choosing to retire to a life of farming, shooting and fishing.  In WW2 he moved with his family to a small estate/farm near Pumsaint in Carmarthenshire, Mid Wales."... About 15 years ago, the Church of England sold the church school in Hartford, built by Sir Thomas Horatio Marshall 'for the purpose of the education of the poor in the parish'.

Sir Thomas was the last Marshall owner of  Hartford Beach.  He died at Bangor, North Wales 29th March 1917.     His body was brought back to Hartford by train, where representatives awaited 'from the army and of his own Company of Northwich Volunteers, his farm and estate tenants at Rudheath and Hartford, the staff and scholars of Hartford School, which he helped to found, the vicar of the church of which he was a patron, landowners, magistrates, local councillors, the head of the firm of family solicitors that had served the first Thomas in 1734, political agents, Northwich tradesmen, and local clergy'.

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