Robert Marshall

Captain Robert Marshall (1863 – 23 July 1910) a retired army captain, was a Scottish playwright.

Biography Robert Marshall's father was a magistrate in Edinburgh, who sent his son to school in St Andrews and afterwards to the University of Edinburgh, where he read Greek, Latin and English literature. his brother having graduated from Sandhurst with distinction.

After three years service in the ranks, he was given a lieutenant's commission in the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment, at that time stationed in the Bermudas. While on guard duty on Agar's Island, he used his off-duty time to write his first play The Subaltern, which was produced by The Amateur Dramatic Club of Bermuda for which he also acted and painted sets. His Excellency the Governor (1898) A Royal Family (1898) The Broad Road (1898) Terry's Theatre, London The Noble Lord (1900) Criterion, London The Second in Command (1900) Prince Charlie (1901) one-act play The Haunted Major (1902) a novel, a.k.a. The Enchanted Golf Clubs There's Many a Slip (1902) a translation of Bataille de Dames by Ernest Legouvé and Eugène Scribe. The Unforeseen (1903) The Duke of Killiecrankie (1904) Second in Command (1910) The Second Fortune