BRITISH PROFILIST (1828-1841) SILHOUETTE OF THE REVEREND JAMES MARSHALL IN THE PULPIT OF THE TOLBOO

BRITISH PROFILIST (1828-1841) SILHOUETTE OF THE REVEREND JAMES MARSHALL IN THE PULPIT OF THE TOLBOOTH KIRK, EDINBURGH cut paper heightened in black and white, 39.5 x 26.5cm with old inscription on the backboard, rosewood frameAn effective and prominent figure in the Church of Scotland and writer of well received evangelical works, James Marshall (1796-1855) was gifted in the Ministry. In the years leading up to the Great Crisis of 1843 he tended to support those advocating a strictly non interventionist policy but before the schism of that year, in which those breaking away established the Free Church of Scotland, Marshall had resigned in 1841 having decided to become an Anglican. When a priest in the Church of England he was appointed to the living of St Mary Le Port, Bristol.