Kenneth Walker Marshall
| Birth name | Kenneth Walker Marshall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 23 July 1911 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Kimberley, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 14 October 1992 (aged 81) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Cape Town, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Christian Brothers College, Kimberley Edinburgh Academy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Marion Patricia Diana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | Hugh Al | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kenneth Walker Marshall (23 July 1911 – 14 October 1992)[1] was a Scottish international rugby and cricket player.[2]
Born in Kimberley, South Africa in 1911, of Scottish descent. One of two brothers (brother – Gordon Marshall). Their father Walker Marshall (born Edinburgh, 1866) was an Accountant for De Beers, and their mother Margaret Marshall (Purves) (born Belfast) was a nurse. Kenneth attended Christian Brothers College, in Kimberley and later Edinburgh Academy, in Edinburgh.
He was capped for Scotland between 1934 and 1937.[2] He also played for Edinburgh Academical RFC.[2] He also played for the Scotland national cricket team.[2] In addition to his Scottish sporting career (based in Edinburgh) he lived in India and in China in the early to middle part of his adult life, as well as travelling extensively. A 2nd Lieutenant in the 6th Gurkha Rifles, India (1941-1945). Interested in Chinese antiquities, and had an export business in China exporting these to Scotland. He had a working knowledge of Mandarin. Married three times (Marion, Patricia, Diana), the father of two sons, Hugh (born in India) and Al (born in Rhodesia), and four grandchildren – Alison (born in Malawi), Sarah (born in Sri Lanka), Kaiser and Dakota (both born in the United States).
He established a coffee farm in the Vumba, in the eastern highlands of Rhodesia, where he spent the latter part of his working life. Retired to Hermanus, South Africa with his third wife. He died in Cape Town in 1992, and is buried in Hermanus, South Africa.
References[]
- Sources
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
- Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN 0-904919-84-6)
See also[]
- List of Scottish cricket and rugby union players
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- 1911 births
- 1992 deaths
- Cricketers from Kimberley, Northern Cape
- Edinburgh Academicals rugby union players
- Europeans cricketers
- Indian Army personnel of World War II
- People educated at Edinburgh Academy
- Royal Gurkha Rifles officers
- Rugby union players from Kimberley, Northern Cape
- Scotland international rugby union players
- Scottish cricketers
- Scottish rugby union players
- Scottish rugby union biography stubs