James Garth Marshall was an English

England

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 Liberal Party

Liberal Party (UK)

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 politician, the Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Leeds

Leeds (UK Parliament constituency)

Leeds was a parliamentary borough covering the town of Leeds, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1885....

 (1847–1852). He was the third son of the wealthy industrialist John Marshall who introduced major innovations in flax spinning and built the celebrated Marshall's Mill

Marshall's Mill

Marshall's Mill is a former flax spinning mill on Marshall Street in Holbeck, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.Marshall's Mill was part of a complex begun in 1791-92 by English industrial pioneer John Marshall...

 and Temple Works

Temple Works

Temple Works is a former flax mill in Holbeck, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was designed by Joseph Bonomi the Younger and built by John Marshall between 1836 and 1840. Temple Works is the only Grade I listed building in Holbeck....

 in Leeds

Leeds

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, West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

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. His eldest brother William

William Marshall (1796-1872)

William Marshall was an English politician, the Member of Parliament for Beverley , for Carlisle , and for East Cumberland...

 was MP for Beverley

Beverley (UK Parliament constituency)

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, Carlisle

Carlisle (UK Parliament constituency)

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 and East Cumberland

East Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency)

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 and his next eldest brother, John

John Marshall (1797-1836)

John Marshall was an English politician, the Member of Parliament for Leeds . He was the second son of the wealthy industrialist John Marshall who introduced major innovations in flax spinning and built the celebrated Marshall's Mill and Temple Works in Leeds, West Yorkshire...

, was an earlier MP for Leeds. The fourth brother, Henry Cowper, was Mayor of Leeds in 1842-1843.

Marshall bought the Monk Coniston estate, near Coniston

Coniston, Cumbria

Coniston is a village and civil parish in the Furness region of Cumbria, England. It is located in the southern part of the Lake District National Park, between Coniston Water, the third longest lake in the Lake District, and Coniston Old Man; about north east of Barrow-in-Furness.-Geography and...

, Cumbria

Cumbria

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, from the Knott family in 1835. He later created the celebrated landscape of Tarn Hows

Tarn Hows

Tarn Hows is an area of the Lake District National Park, containing a picturesque tarn, approximately northeast of Coniston and about northwest of Hawkshead...

 by constructing a dam to merge three existing small tarns into the present body of water, at the same time supplying water power to his sawmill in Yewdale. The estate was later bought by Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter

Helen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children’s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.Born into a privileged Unitarian...

 and eventually passed to the National Trust

National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty

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