Life and career Marshall was born at Bermondsey in London, second son of William Marshall (1812–1901), clerk and cashier at the Bank of England, and Rebecca (1817–1878), daughter of butcher Thomas Oliver, from whom, on her mother's death, she inherited property.The Wrong Marshall: Notes on the Marshall family in response to biographies of the economist, Alfred Marshall, Megan Stevens and Alun Stevens, in History of Political Economy, Volume 52, Issue 2, April 2020, pp. 239–273 William Marshall was a devout strict Evangelical, "author of an Evangelical epic in a sort of Anglo-Saxon language of his own invention which found some favour in its appropriate circles" and of a tract titled Men's Rights and Women's Duties. There are scholars who note that this strict upbringing wielded strong influence on Marshall's work such as how he favored the doctrines of philosophical idealism.
Life and career Marshall was born at Bermondsey in London, second son of William Marshall (1812–1901), clerk and cashier at the Bank of England, and Rebecca (1817–1878), daughter of butcher Thomas Oliver, from whom on her mother's death, she inherited property.The Wrong Marshall: Notes on the Marshall family in response to biographies of the economist, Alfred Marshall, Megan Stevens and Alun Stevens, in History of Political Economy, Volume 52, Issue 2, April 2020, pp. 239–273 William Marshall was a devout strict Evangelical, "author of an Evangelical epic in a sort of Anglo-Saxon language of his own invention which found some favour in its appropriate circles" and of a tract titled Men's Rights and Women's Duties. There are scholars who note that this strict upbringing wielded strong influence on Marshall's work such as how he favored the doctrines ,of philosophical idealism.