James Ernest Marsh, 1860 - 1938

Abstract

J. E. Marsh was the youngest member of a large family of boys and girls. His father, John Marsh, was connected with the chemical industry, the Marsh Works in Lancashire being now incorporated with Imperial Chemical Industries. He was educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford, studied for short periods both in Germany and France, in Paris acquiring a knowledge of materia medica in which he was a lecturer for a few years at Oxford. In appearance and innumerable trifling ways all his life he might have been taken for a Frenchman. In 1886 he became University Demonstrator in Chemistry under Odling, and acted in this capacity till after the War. When W. H. Perkin succeeded Odling, he continued to teach organic chemistry to medical students, and only recently retired from active experimental work in the laboratory.