Arthur Hammond Marshall was an English author, publisher, and writer who wrote under the pen name Archibald Marshall. He was born on September 6, 1866, and died on September 29, 1934. His books were especially popular in the United States. He wrote more than 50 books, and his style was known as realistic. Some people saw him as a rival to Anthony Trollope. After going to Cambridge University for school, Yale University gave him an honors Doctor of Letters degree in 1921. He traveled a lot and met a lot of important people. Arthur Marshall, Archibald Marshall's father (1832-1900), ran a business in London. Archibald went to Highgate School for school. He didn't want to work for his father's shipping company, so he first wanted to be a priest. He studied religion at Trinity College, Cambridge, and made friends with Bertram Fletcher Robinson, Vaughan Williams, and other people. In 1902, he married Nellie Banks, whose maiden name was Ellen Pollard and who had three children from her previous marriage to Alfred Banks. They had one daughter together, Elizabeth, who was born in December 1904. He built a house in Beaulieu, Hampshire, where he moved to live in 1903.
