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Major-General '''George Frederick Leycester Marshall''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CIE}} (27 March 1843 [[Bridgnorth]], Salop – 7 March 1934) was the son of William Marshall (a clergyman) and his wife Louisa Sophia, also brother of [[Charles Henry Tilson Marshall|C. H. T. Marshall]] and uncle of [[Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall]]. He became a Colonel in the [[Indian Army]] and was a [[natural history|naturalist]] interested in the birds and butterflies of India. Marshall described several new species of butterflies, along with [[Lionel de Nicéville]], and discovered the [[white-tailed iora]], sometimes referred to as Marshall's iIora. He wrote ''The butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon''.<br />
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Marshall retired from the Royal (late Bengal) Engineers in November 1897.<ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26921/page/7650/data.pdf London Gazette, December 21, 1897. p. 7650]</ref> Marshall married Elizabeth Huntley Muir (1851, Agra - 1913) at Allahabad in 1874. One son George Leycester Knox (born 1875) died young at Simla on 20 July 1883.<ref>{{cite book| title= A list of inscriptions on Christian tombs or monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan|author=Irving, Miles|year=1910| place=Lahore|publisher=Punjab Government Press|url=https://archive.org/details/ALlistOfInscriptionsOnChristianTombsPunjabKashmirNWFPVol1Inscriptions/page/n64}}</ref> Marshall was made CIE in the [[1893 New Year Honours]].<br />
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==Works==<br />
* {{cite book |last=Marshall |first=G.F.L. |author-link=George Frederick Leycester Marshall<br />
|date=1877 |title=Birds' nesting in India. A calendar of the breeding seasons, and a popular guide to the habits and haunts of birds<br />
|location=Calcutta |publisher=Calcutta Central Press<br />
|oclc=562551302 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/29682 |access-date=2020-04-15<br />
}}<ref name=Marshall1877>{{harvnb|Marshall|1877}}: [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org//bibliography/54066 second digital copy] in BHL, and [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12521 third].</ref><br />
*1883 with [[Lionel de Nicéville|de Nicéville, L.]] ''Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon''. Vol. 1. Repr. 1979, New Delhi, 327 pp.<br />
*1886. ''The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon''. Vol. 2. Repr. 1979, New Delhi, 332 pp.<br />
*1890. ''The butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon''. Vol. 3. Repr. 1979, New Delhi, 503 pp.<br />
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* The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon. [https://archive.org/details/butterfliesofind01mars Volume 1] [https://archive.org/details/butterfliesofind02mars Volume 2] [https://archive.org/details/butterfliesofind03mars Volume 3]<br />
* [https://archive.org/details/birdsnestinginin00mars Birds' nesting in India. A calendar of the breeding seasons, and a popular guide to the habits and haunts of birds. (1877)]<br />
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