Senior partner of the "M" firm of Jdoctors, Dr. Robert J. Marshall, IND., EM. (Glasgow) is leaving on tirement at the beginning of next month, after 35 years in Shanghai.
Ever since his arrival Dr. Marshall has played a prominent part in the activities of a town in which his family and his wife's have had an Interest for very many years. Dr. Marshal's first idea of coming to) Shanghai came from his godfather, Mr. J.B. Robertson, who was broker in Shanghai in the sixties while his. wife's father and grandfather were both China hands. Mrs. necessary funds having been guaranteed. Dr. Marshall has been president of the club ever since, Volunteer Service Dr. Marshall's first period of service with the Shanghai Volunteer Corps was with the Light Horse, which Joined as a trooper. He remain-
Marshall's father was Mr. Alex: Wright, taipan of Messrs, Butterfield Swire, and her grandfather, Mr. Kenneth Ross Mackenzie, was the first vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce in 1847 and president in 1848 and 1649, The "M" Firm Dr, Marshall came to Shanghai in i809, following an introduction by' Dr. G. Thin, a former Shanghai resident, to join the firm of Henderson, Macleod and Milles. Dr. Henderson dropped out of the firm, which came to be Known as "Mf"
Firm as the names of all its partners began with that letter. This was made more marked by the addition, to the firm, one year after Dr. Marshall, of Dr. BL. Marsh, still a member of it, 1800 he was appointed Consular Surgeon, in the time of Lord Lans-Jdowne, as were Drs. Macleod and Milles, and he is the sole survivor of the trio. In the same year he Join-the staff of the General Hospital, fand {s still on it.
In connection with his early days! az a Corps M.O,, Dr. Marshall speaks of motor ambulances. Himself the third motorist in" Shanghai—Mr. White of the U.S. Consulate-General was the first and Dr. Macleod the second—he had always held that Shanghai should have motor ambulances. Neither the Police nor the Health Department, however, want~ fed to be responsible for ambulances, fas they would show increases in depart mental estimates, and therefore] all proposals for such ambulances were promptly turned down, Finally got Capt. K. J. MeEuen, when he became Commissioner of Police, to see his point of view, and' the Police acquired two motor ambul-
He has been' governor of the Country Hospital, surgeon to the Shanghai Municipal Police, and his civic service has included membership of the Health Committee.
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