CBE 2002; FBA 1992; DPhil; Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, King's College, London, 1980–93, now Emeritus;
 

b 28 Oct. 1933; s of Edward Hannaford Marshall and Madeleine (née Shuttleworth). Educ: Wellington College; Wadham Coll., Oxford (BA 1957; MA, DPhil 1962; Hon. Fellow, 1997). Work: Military service, King's African Rifles, Kenya, 1953–54. Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer, Reader, Professor, History Dept, King's Coll., London, 1959–80 (FKC 1991). Mem., History Wkg Gp, National Curriculum, 1989–90. Pres., RHistS, 1996–2000 (Vice-Pres., 1987–91; Hon. Vice-Pres., 2000–). Hon. For. Mem., Amer. Historical Assoc., 2003–. Editor, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 1975–81; Associate Editor, Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, 1976–. Publications: Impeachment of Warren Hastings, 1965; Problems of Empire: Britain and India 1757–1813, 1968; (ed, with J. A. Woods) Correspondence of Edmund Burke, vol. VII, 1968; The British Discovery of Hinduism, 1972; East India Fortunes, 1976; (ed) Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, vol. V, 1981, vol. VI, 1991, vol. VII, 2000; (with Glyndwr Williams) The Great Map of Mankind, 1982; Bengal: the British bridgehead (New Cambridge History of India, Vol. II, 2), 1988; Trade and Conquest: studies on the rise of British dominance in India, 1993; (ed) Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire, 1996; (ed) Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol. II, The Eighteenth Century, 1998; A Free Though Conquering People: eighteenth-century Britain and its empire, 2003; (ed) The Eighteenth Century in Indian History: evolution or revolution?, 2003; The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India and America, c 1750–1783, 2005; articles in Economic History Rev., History, Modern Asian Studies, etc.