Marshall was born in Chester and educated at Cambridge. In 1902 he was appointed Director-General of Archaeology within the British Indian administration, and modernised the approach to archaeology on that continent, introducing a programme of cataloguing and conservation of ancient monuments and artefacts.
It was thanks to him that native Indians were allowed for the first time to participate in excavations in their own country. In 1913, he began the excavations at Taxila, which lasted for twenty years. He then moved on to other sites, including the Buddhist centres of Sanchi and Sarnath. His work revealed to the world the true age of Indian civilisation.
JohnMarshall (September 24, 1755–July 6, 1835) was a highly influential American statesman, lawyer, legislator and soldier who served as a Virginia Delegate, U.S. Representative, special emissary to France, Secretary of State and, most significantly, as the fourth Chief Justice of the United States.
JohnMarshall was born to planter Thomas Marshall (1732–1806) and his wife Mary Isham Keith in 1755 in Germantown, Virginia, in a section of Prince William County that became Fauquier County, Virginia four years after his birth.
JohnMarshall was unanimously confirmed as the fourth Chief Justice of the United States by the United States Senate on January 27, commissioned January 31 and seated February 4.
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