Nathaniel Marshall
Nathaniel Marshall (died 1730) was an English churchman and theologian. His views were high church and cessationist, and he was a strong opponent of the nonjurors. Life. He was son of John Marshall, rector of St George, Bloomsbury, and entered as a pensioner of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 8 July 1696. He was admitted to the degree of LL.B. in 1702, and afterwards took holy orders, as deacon in 1705 and priest in 1705. In 1712 he preached before the Sons of the Clergy. He was lecturer at Aldermanbury Church, and curate of Kentish Town in January 1715, when , at the recommendation of the Prince of Wales, who admired his preaching, he was appointed one of the king's chaplains. On 26 March 1716 he became rector of the united parishes of St. Vedast, Foster Lane, and St. Michaelle-Querne, in the city of London); and in 1717 he was created D.D. at Cambridge by royal mandate. He was appointed canon of Windsor by patent dated 1 May 1722. He was also lecturer of the united parishes of St. Laurence Jewry and St. Martin, Ironmonger Lane. He died on 5 February 1730, and was buried at St. Pancras. By  his wife Margaret he had eight children, the eldest of whom was in 1730 rector of St John the Evangelist Friday Street. Works. His publications are: Of Marshall's separately published sermons, one entitled "The Royal Pattern", on the death of Queen Anne, passed through five editions in 1714; his funeral sermon on Richard Blundel, surgeon, 1718, is reprinted in John Wilford's "Memorials and Characters"; and his sermon on the death of John Rogers, 1729, elicited "Some Remarks" from 'Philalethes.'