Alfred William Marshall

Alfred William Marshall (1847-14 February 1917) was a tutor, manufacturer and local politician.

Born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, he was the son of Thomas Marshall and Harriet née Fenner. He was privately educated at a boarding school in Clapham. He became an assistant master at a 'genetleman's school' in Reading by 1871 and in 1881 was living in Marylebone and working as a private tutor. By 1891 his occupation had changed to 'merchant'. He moved to 'The Towers', Pinner, Middlesex soon after and in 1901 was described as a 'manufacturer of culinary requisites' in 1901 and more specifically as a gelatine manufacturer in 1911.

In 1898 he was elected to Middlesex County Council as councillor for Harrow. he held the seat until 1904 when it was abolished due to boundary changes. In March 1904 he was elected county councillor for Pinner, but resigned in November of that year.

At Christmas 1916 Marshall left England for Nice in the south of France due to ill health. He died there in February of the following year. In July 1920 his family had his remains repatriated and re-interred at Pinner Cemetery.