Julian Marshall was an English amateur musician, music and print collector and tenns player and writer.

Life

Marshall was born in Headingley

Headingley

Headingley is a suburb of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. It is approximately two miles out of the city centre, to the north west along the A660 road...

, Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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 to a flax

Flax

Flax is a member of the genus Linum in the family Linaceae. It is native to the region extending from the eastern Mediterranean to India and was probably first domesticated in the Fertile Crescent...

-spinning family. His father, John Marshall had been Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP) 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....

. His grandfather was industrialist John Marshall, who was also an MP. Marshall attended Harrow School

Harrow School

Harrow School, commonly known simply as "Harrow", is an English independent school for boys situated in the town of Harrow, in north-west London.. The school is of worldwide renown. There is some evidence that there has been a school on the site since 1243 but the Harrow School we know today was...

 in London, before joining the family business. As a young man, Marshall started collecting prints, and later, music manuscripts. He was also a music writer and contributed work to the first edition of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, it is the largest single reference work on Western music. The dictionary has gone through several editions since the 19th century...

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Marshall codified the rules of real tennis

Real tennis

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 in 1872. In 1873 he played an important early lawn

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 match with William Hart Dyke

William Hart Dyke

Sir William Hart Dyke, 7th Baronet PC, DL, JP was an English Conservative politician and tennis pioneer.-Background and education:...

 and John Moyer Heathcote

John Moyer Heathcote

John Moyer Heathcote was an English barrister and real tennis player. He was one of the committee that devised the original rules of lawn tennis and is credited with devising the cloth covering for the tennis ball....

 at Lullingstone Castle

Lullingstone Castle

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. By 1877 the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club

All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club

The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club , also known as the All-England Club, based at Aorangi Park, Wimbledon, London, England, is a private members club. It is best known as the venue for the Wimbledon Championships, the only Grand Slam tennis event still held on grass...

 was proposing the first Wimbledon Championships, and a review of the rules was required. Marshall with his fellow MCC commissioner Heathcote, and Henry Jones

Henry Jones (writer)

Henry Jones was an English author well-known as a writer and authority on tennis and card games who wrote under the nom de plume "Cavendish".-Biography:...

 of the All England club laid down the rules that are little changed to this day in time for the first Wimbledon tournament on 9 July 1877.

Marshall died on 21 November 1903 at Hampstead

Hampstead

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Publications

• The Annals of Tennis (1878)
• Lawn-tennis,: With the laws adopted by the M.C.C., and A.E.C. & L.T.C., and Badminton by Julian Marshall (1879)
• Tennis cuts and quips,: In prose and verse, with rules and wrinkles (1884)
• Tennis racquets fives 1890 Bell (with J Spens and Ja Arnan Tate)

Family

Marshall married Florence Ashton Thomas

Florence Ashton Marshall

Florence Ashton Marshall née Thomas was an English writer, composer and conductor. She was born on March 30, 1843 in Rome, Italy, the daughter of Vicar Canon Thomas of All Hallows Barking by the Tower, and studied music at the Royal Academy of Music with William Sterndale Bennett, John Goss and G.A...

 on 7 October 1864. She was a musician and author of Handel (1883) and Life and letters of Mary W. Shelley (2 vols. 1889). One of their three daughters was Dorothy Marshall, who became a noted chemist.