Henry Marshall

Who was Henry Marshall?

Henry Vincent Marshall was the sixth Bishop of Salford, a Roman Catholic diocese in the north-west of England.

Born in 1884 in Listowel County Kerry, he was educated there at St Michael's College and in Dublin at All Hallows College, where he was ordained a priest on 24 June 1908. of the Diocese of Salford.

Following ordination he served as curate at St Wilfrid, Hulme until 1910, when he was loaned to the Diocese of Newport. Returning to the Salford Diocese in 1911, he was appointed to St Thomas of Canterbury, Higher Broughton, where he remained until 1922, when he was appointed to Collyhurst, tasked with founding the new parish of St Malachy. In 1934 he was appointed Parish Priest at St Wilfrid, Longridge and then in 1935 at St Anne's Church, Ancoats.

In 1935, Marshall was made Vicar General of the Diocese and in 1937 was elevated to the Cathedral Chapter. Upon the death of Bishop Thomas Henshaw, he was appointed as Vicar Capitular and on the 5 August 1939 was appointed as the new Bishop, being consecrated on 21 September 1939 on the eve of the Second World War.