Marshel Arthur

Marshel Arthur: Marshel Arthur (1879 – 1962) was a china clay worker and historian from Cornwall, UK.

After the death of his father Marshel left school at the age of ten in 1889 and began work as a tool boy under his older brother Tom, at Lower Goonamaris China Stone Quarry in January 1890.^[1] He recalled his experiences in his autobiography (completed in 1955): Autobiography of a China Clay Worker: with a Short History of the Rise of the China Clay Industry, St Austell: Federation of Old Cornwall Societies, (1995) ISBN 0902660233

References

^ Wheal-Martyn China Clay Museum 'The Kettle Boy'

Hudson, Kenneth The History of English China Clays: Fifty Years of Pioneering and Growth ISBN 0715346555; pages 31-33 & 151-153

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Date of birth 1879

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Date of death 1962

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