Murray Marshall
English rugby union footballer (1852-1930)
Murray Marshall was a rugby union international who represented England from 1873 to 1878. He also captained his country.
Early life
Murray Wyatt Marshall was born 7 October 1852 in Guildford and baptised on 3 November 1852 in the parish of St Peter and St Paul, Godalming. His parents were Murray (a merchant) and Eliza Marshall. He had two older brothers, George and Bryant, and six younger siblings, Milicent, Lionel Hasler, Oswald Percival, Constance Emily, Octavia and Walter Douglas. After leaving Wellington College he became a timber merchant and married Alice Maud Everitt, eighteen years his junior, in 1892 and they had a daughter, Madelaine.
Rugby union career
Marshall made his international debut on 3 March 1873 at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow in the Scotland vs England match.
Of the 10 matches he played for his national side he was on the winning side on 6 occasions.
He played his final match for England on 11 March 1878 at Lansdowne Road in the Ireland vs England match.
In an era where international matches were few and far between, Marshall played in ten consecutive international matches, a record that stood for 36 years.
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