Charles Marshall

Sir Charles Marshall (1788 – 5 February 1873) was the sixth Chief Justice of Ceylon.

Marshall was the only son of Samuel Marshall, a lawyer and serjeant at law, and was educated at Westminster School. He matriculated at Jesus College, Cambridge in 1806, graduating B.A. in 1810, and M.A. in 1814. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1815.

Marshall produced the first book on Sri Lankan Law. He also published Term Reports Common Pleas and Marshall on Insurance. In 1851 he married Mary, the widow of John Cox and sister-in-law of the Rev John Oliver, warden of the London Diocesan Penitentiary. He died at his London home of 5 Kensington Garden Terrace in 1873.