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William Marshall Author & Editor

William Marshall read History at Pembroke College, Oxford, and later worked for his M.Litt. and Ph.D. degrees at Bristol University. He was Head of History at Millfield School, Somerset, and one of the ordained chaplains. After retirement he worked as a voluntary Project Manager for the GAP organisation in China (1990-95) and West China (1995-99), sending young people to teach English in widespread places in that vast country and overseeing their work there. He has published several books, George Hooper 1640-1727, Bishop of Bath and Wells (1976) based on his M.Litt. work, Peter the Great (Longman 1996) and GAP in China, The First Five Years, 1990-1995 (2003). He lives in Cambridgeshire with his wife. They have three sons and two granddaughters.