| Admin History | John Marshall (1818-1891), anatomist, was born in Ely, the son of William Marshall, a solicitor, and was educated at University College London. He was admitted a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1849, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1857. He was appointed Professor of Surgery at University College London in 1866, and wrote, among a number of other works, 'The Outlines of Human Physiology, Human and Comparative' (1867). The collection was put together by his daughter, Ada Blanche Marshall, mainly from letters addressed to him. |