William Elliot Marshall
1826–88
Spanish-born army officer, ethnologist, and phrenologist. Served in the Bengal Staff Corps; lieutenant-colonel, 1870; retired as major-general. Non-subscribing member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal from 1873.
Sources
BMD (Death index)
Census returns of England and Wales 1861 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG9/1802/39/15)
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 7 January 2014)
London Gazette, 18 August 1871, p. 3645
Marshall 1873, p. 6
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1878), Appendix, p. xxv.
Bibliography
BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.
Marshall, William Elliot. 1873. A phrenologist amongst the Todas, or, the study of a primitive tribe in South India: history, character, customs, religion, infanticide, polyandry, language. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
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