Marshall Stevens

Marshall Stevens
Marshall Stevens
Born 18 April 1852
Plymouth, England
Died 12 August 1936
Devonport, England
Nationality English
Occupation Property developer
Spouse Louisa Blamey
Parents Sanders Stevens and Emma Ruth Marshall

Marshall Stevens (18 April 1852 – 12 August 1936) was an English property developer. His work with Daniel Adamson and others led to the construction of the Manchester Ship Canal, completed in 1894, and he was appointed general manager of the Ship Canal Company in 1891. On 1 January 1897, Stevens resigned from the canal company to become general manager of Trafford Park Estates, a company set up by Ernest Terah Hooley to develop Trafford Park, the ancestral home of the de Trafford family, into what became the first and largest planned industrial estate in the world. He also served as Conservative Member of Parliament for Eccles from 1918 to 1922.[1]

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Commemoration

Photograph
Memorial to Marshall Stevens

Following Stevens' death in 1936, shareholders in Trafford Park Estates subscribed to pay for a memorial. It was designed and executed by Arthur Sherwood Edwards, in the form of a 22-ton block of Welsh granite with a bronze portrait medallion and inscription. The memorial was unveiled on its original site, at the junction of Trafford Park Road and Ashburton Road, in October 1937. In 1993, the introduction of a new road layout resulted in its relocation to Wharfside Promenade, now the site of the Imperial War Museum North. When construction work began on the museum, the memorial was put into temporary storage before being relocated once again, to Trafford Park Village, at the junction of Third Avenue and Eleventh Street.[2]

The memorial is inscribed:

Marshall Stevens
1852–1936
To whose foresight, energy and ability
the successful development of Trafford Park
as an industrial area is due.

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Notes

  1. ^ Farnie, D. A. (2004). "Stevens, Marshall (1852–1936)" (Subscription or UK public library membership required). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36285. Retrieved 22 April 2008. 
  2. ^ Al-Taraboulsy, Hannah (7 May 2008). "Marshall Stevens statue rededicated". This is Cheshire. Newsquest Media Group. http://www.thisischeshire.co.uk/news/latestnews/display.var.2250418.0.marshall_stevens_statue_rededicated.php. Retrieved 8 May 2008. 

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir George Herbert Pollard		 Member of Parliament for Eccles
1918–1922		 Succeeded by
John Buckle


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