Peter Timothy MARSH

PROFESSOR PETER TIMOTHY MARSH December 8, 1935 - January 4, 2022 Historian Peter T Marsh, a native of Toronto, has died in Birmingham, UK. His parents were Margaret and Henry Marsh. Graduating from the University of Toronto in 1958, Peter pursued postgraduate studies at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He earned his PhD in 1962 and later received an Honorary Litt D from Cambridge. Peter's first teaching post was at the University of Saskatchewan (1962-67), followed by a period as Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Appointed Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University in 1967, Peter became Chair of the Department 1968-70. Initially researching church history, he gradually moved to a wider sphere of 19th and 20th century British history and international political economy. He was appointed Professor of History at Syracuse in 1978, later Professor Emeritus. Named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1980, Peter held many prestigious positions at Syracuse University and internationally throughout his long and influential career. Among Peter's many publications was the acclaimed Joseph Chamberlain, Entrepreneur in Politics (Yale, 1994). In 1997, he was granted an Honorary Professorship of the University of Birmingham. Upon retirement Peter moved to England and became involved as Chair of Governors of a small secondary school in one of the most deprived inner-city areas of Britain, playing a pivotal role in converting the school into Ark St. Alban's Academy, achieving remarkable success in sending its pupils on to further higher education establishments. Still a Church of England school but where the majority of students are Muslim, all are encouraged to learn about their own religion as well as the beliefs of their fellow students. Peter is survived by his British wife Amanda, as well as his three children, Stephen, Andrea (Jason) and Susan (Lyndon), their mother, Margaret Webb (née Watts), and granddaughters Jessica, Lisette and Caroline (Susan) and Margaret (Andrea). He was predeceased by his second wife, Konstanze Baumer, and survived by his sister, Mary and her children.