Archibald Pellow Marshall

Sir Archie Pellow Marshall (20 November 1899 – 20 June 1966) was a British local Liberal Party politician and High Court Judge.

Background He was the younger son of Alfred Ernest Stanley Marshall, of Roche, Cornwall. He was educated at Truro School, Cornwall and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MA, LLB (Camb.), 1921–25. In 1926 he married Meta Hawke, of Bugle, Cornwall. They had one son and one daughter. In 1959 he was knighted. He was elected a bard of the Cornish Gorseth in 1963, taking the Bardic name Brusyas an Gernewyon (Judge of the Cornish).

Legal career He was called to Bar and joined the Midland Circuit in 1925. He took silk becoming a King's Counsel in 1947. He became a High Court Judge in 1959. In 1963 he presided over the trial of Dr. Stephen Ward. Geoffrey Robertson, a Queen's Counsel who has written a book on the trial, Stephen Ward was Innocent, OK, says that on more than one significant legal point, Marshall misdirected the jurors. The transcript of his summing up, lodged at the National Archives, has been closed and classified as secret until the year 2046. He was Chairman of the Union of University Liberal Societies from 1924 to 1925. He was Liberal candidate for the King's Norton Division of Birmingham at the 1929 General Election.

He was Liberal candidate again for the King's Norton Division at the 1931 General Election. Election box begin | title=General Election 1931: Birmingham Kings Norton He was Liberal candidate for the Hereford Division of Herefordshire at the 1945 General Election. Election box begin | title=General Election 1945: Hereford