John Marshall was a late 18th and early 19th century publisher and printer in Tyneside, England. He also owned a bookshop and circulating library, and was a purveyor of tea, in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Business career
John Marshall was a publisher, printer and bookseller. He also owned circulation libraries in Newcastle’s Cloth Market, and Gateshead’s Church Street between 1810 and 1831.
He was very politically active, and was a radical, who supported many causes (including those of Queen Caroline and the victims of the Peterloo Massacre of (Manchester)) and supported other radicals such as Samuel Bamford.
One of his larger publications was A Collection of Songs, Comic, Satirical, and Descriptive, chiefly in the Newcastle Dialect, and illustrative of the language and manners of the common people on the Banks of the Tyne and neighbourhood published in 1827.
He was very fortunate in 1810 to avoid a fire nearly destroying his house. One of the articles in “A Descriptive and Historical Account ….. Newcastle-upon-Tyne ….. and …. Gateshead….- Volume I” written by Eneas Mackenzie and published in c1827 tells of the fire and states :-
It appeared that the business closed in 1831 and the following report appeared in the London Gazette on “the 14th day of November 1831”
Works
These include :-
Political pamphlets, posters and booklets
Political pamphlets of many and varied (some now long forgotten) topics including :- The People's Right to Annual Parliaments A full Account of the general Meeting, on Monday 11 October 1819 The Crimes of the Reformers The White Hat Address of the Reformers of Fawdon, &c Declaration and Rules of the Political Protestants, &c True Religion and Superstition compared and contrasted A Letter on the Persecution of W. H. Stephenson, a Methodist Preacher A Dialogue between a Methodist Preacher and a Reformer The Principles of British Parliamentary Reform And many more
The Northern Reformer's Monthly Magazine" was printed and published in 1823 and 1824 by John Marshall, price 1s.