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Newton Herbert Marshall
Newton Herbert Marshall (13 October 1874 - 13 January 1914) was an English Baptist minister and writer. At the time of his 'tragically early' death he was minister of Heath Street Baptist Chapel in Hampstead and a member of the National Free Church Council.

Background and education
The son of Thomas Daniel Marshall, a prosperous London bootmaker, Marshall grew up under the Westbourne Park ministry of Dr John Clifford. He took his MA at London University University in 1896 where he was awarded the gold medal for Philosophy. He continued his education with a PhD at Halle University in Germany where he studied under Adolf von Harnack and where, in 1900-01, he attended Harnack's famous lectures Das Wesen des Christentums (5th ed., 1901; English translation, What is Christianity? 1901). Marshall's studies in Germany resulted in the publication of Die Gegenwärtigen Richtungen der Religionsphilosophie in England and ihre erkenntnistheoritichen Grundlagen (1st ed., Halle a.S., 1901 ; expanded 2nd ed., Berlin, Reuter und Reichart, 1902).

In 1905, shortly before the London World Baptist Congress of July 11th to 19th, the English Baptists sent Marshall, described as 'one of the most brilliant and scholarly of their number', as a commissioner to each country in Europe.

Marshall's first major work in English Theology and Truth (1906) was the result of his PhD and considered the nature of religious truth.

In 1907 Marshall was appointed, with Clifford and John Howard Shakespeare (editor of The Baptist Times and Freeman) by the Baptist World Alliance to travel to Hungary and arbitrate in a long-standing dispute between the two Baptist Unions there. In 1908 Marshall attended the first European Baptist Congress where he presented a paper in which he claimed that Baptists took an essentially broad view of the problems presented by modern philosophic and scientific ideas ; he reported back on the Congress to the British Baptist Union. In November 1909 Marshall supported the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Randall Davidson at the Great Congo Demonstration held at The Royal Albert Hall to protest against violence and oppression in the Congo Free State.

In June 1911, as a member of the Executive Committee of the Baptist World Alliance, Marshall travelled to Philadelphia for the Second Congress. During the Congress Marshall sat on the sub-committee which dealt with questions concerning the constitution of the Alliance. On 22nd June, he introduced the day's proceedings.

In July 1913, at the European Baptist Congress in Stockholm, Marshall presented a paper on the geographical distribution of Baptists in Europe. In October of the same year at the Baptist Union's autumn assembly in Manchester Marshall presented a paper on 'Protestantism and the Social Unrest'.

On 13th January 1914, at the age of 41, Marshall died after a short illness of typhoid fever.

Marshall's life is commemorated on a plaque at Heath Street Baptist Chapel in Hampstead.

Works

 * Die Gegenwärtigen Richtungen der Religionsphilosophie in England and ihre erkenntnistheoritichen Grundlagen (1901)
 * Die Gegenwärtigen Richtungen der Religionsphilosophie in England and ihre erkenntnistheoritichen Grundlagen - expanded version (1902)
 * Europe for Christ. A Call to the Baptists of Britain... (1906)
 * Theology and truth (1906)
 * Atonement and progress (1908)
 * Empire and Races in Contemporary Review, Oxford, England, September 1909
 * Conversion; or, the New Birth (1909)
 * Jesus and modern thought (1910)
 * Baptists in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911. (in part)
 * Jesus and the seekers: the saviour of the world and the sages of the world (1911)
 * The Baptists in Evangelical Christianity; Its History And Witness: A Series Of Lectures Delivered At Mansfield College, Oxford, in the Hilary Term, 1911 (ed. Selbie, 1911)
 * Science in Hasting's Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels (1913)
 * The Day's Work in The Sunday at Home, The Queenslander, Brisbane, Australia (13th September 1913)
 * Questions Asked by Young Men (1913)