1. Homepage
2. Life of Henry Cort
3. Cort's processes in iron manufacture
4. Cort's patents
5. Refutation of allegations of conspiracies against Cort
6. Adam Jellicoe's death
7. Henry Cort's birth
8. A navy agent's business
9. Early life of John Becher
10. Attwick & Burges families
11. "Cortship" of second wife
12. Thomas Morgan
13. Henry Cort's hoops contract
14. 1856 Accolade
15. Generosity of friends 1789-94
16. James Watson
17. Illness of Cort's son
18. Main sources of information
19. Contemporary sources
20. Navy sources
21. Chancery files
22. Publications about Cort
23. Assessment of Cort's character
24. Images of Henry Cort

25. Impeach-tranferred to 05

26. Parliamentary inquiry 1811-2
27. The furore of the 1850s
28. Society of Arts
29. Cort's first marriage
30. Henry Cort's children
31. Cort family pensions
32. Henry Cort's Hertfordshire property
33. 1791 signatories
34. Guiana and the Cort-Gladstone connection
35. Cort's twilight years
36. Memorials to Henry Cort


37. Smelting of iron
38. Fining before Cort
39. Shropshire & Staffordshire ironmasters
40. Cumbrians: Wilkinson etc
41. Early works at Merthyr Tydfil
42. The Crowley business
43. London ironmongers
44. Scottish iron
45. Cort's promotion efforts 1783-6
46. Later Merthyr connections
47. Puddling after Henry Cort


48. Gosport in Cort's day
49. Gosport administration
50. Gosport worthies
51. The Amherst-Porter network
52. James Hackman, murderer
53. Samuel Marshall
54. Samuel Jellicoe's legacy
55. Links with Titchfield
56. Links with Fareham


57. Fact, error and conjecture
58. 18th century politics
59. Law in the 18th century
60. 18th century finance
61. Religion and sexual mores
62. Calendar change of 1752
63. Shelburne, Parry and associates
64. John Becher's family
65. The Becher-Thackeray lineage
66. Thomas Lyttelton: a fantastic narrative
67. Eighteenth-century London
68. Abolition and the Corts
69. The Burges will tangle


70. Navy connections
71. Navy agent's business
72. Cort's clients
73. Ships' pursers
74. History of Adam Jellicoe
75. Dundas & Trotter
76. Cort's navy office associates
77. Toulmin & other agents
78. Sandwich & Middleton
79. The Arethusa
80. John Becher's war
81. Thomas Morgan's war
82. The 1782 Jamaica convoy
83. Sinking of the Royal George

84. Rickman & Scott: two contrasting naval careers-Missing



85. Visitors 2006-2009
86. Developement of the site 2006-2009

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87. Daniel Guion and family

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88. Other publications

SAMUEL MARSHALL

Three navy officers with this name are commissioned in 1732, 1760, and 1782. Presumably in a father-son line.

The eldest is said in his will (made April 1768, executed the following month) to be from "Berry in the parish of Alverstoke". (Part of the road now linking Gosport with Alverstoke village is called Bury Road.)

He may have connections with the Attwick family. When he is in command of the Tyger in 1753-4, third lieutenant is Thomas Bishop, who has a servant called John Courtney. John Attwick's daughter Mary has a son, John Courtenay, from her first marriage: her second husband is named Thomas Bishop. Coincidence?

Marshall's will names two children, Samuel and Edith.

In December 1769 Edith marries Lieutenant David Maitland. The marriage has unusual features.

The children have fancy names like Henry Topham Harley and Reynera Charlotte. Three of them are baptised twice: at both Gosport Holy Trinity and Alverstoke St Mary.

Edith's husband may have a family pedigree he needs to live up to. A contemporary, Hon Frederick Lewis Maitland - also a naval officer, with one child baptised at Gosport - is son to the Sixth Earl of Lauderdale. The Lauderdale Maitland's pedigree goes back to the sixteenth century. The First Earl's brother was Secretary to Mary Queen of Scots.

But it is Edith's brother Samuel who is of greatest interest.

His naval career starts in 1753, when he is listed as servant to his father aboard the Tyger. To judge from ships' pay books, his first command is the Antigua in 1762. Other books tell a different story.

In December 1776 he takes command of the frigate Arethusa. Over the next six months she is escorting convoys to Lisbon. Then she moves to the waters between Great Britain and Ireland.

In June 1778 she joins the fleet in the channel under Admiral Keppel. On the eighteenth she is involved in an engagement, celebrated in song, with the French frigate Belle Poule.

She is severely damaged, but is repaired in time to take part in the July battle that leads to Keppel's court martial. Marshall is the first witness at the court martial.

In April 1782 he is in command of another frigate, the Flora, at the Battle of the Saints. When the victorious Admiral Rodney arrives back in England, he goes on shore accompanied by Samuel Marshall.

From November 1783 to October 1787 Marshall commands the Pegase, which remains in the Portsmouth area throughout. During this period the name Samuel Marshall appears as one of the Fareham Turnpike trustees named in the dispute with Peter Barfoot.

In January 1790 he is named as a Commissioner of Victualling (PRO, ADM111/117).

On 5th November 1793, Marshall bids farewell to the Navy Victualling Board, informing them he has been appointed a Commissioner of the Navy. His career can be traced via Assistant Deputy Comptroller (patent 4 December 1793) to Deputy Comptroller (patent 25 September 1794). During this period a knighthood is conferred. His death is recorded in the Navy's accounts (ADM7/815) as 2nd October 1795.

There is no sign of a pension for the widow of any Samuel Marshall; and it appears that the third in the family line (his son?) has predeceased him.

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