Thomas William Marley

Thomas William Marley (13 May 1850 – 14 July 1923), chairman and managing director of the North Brancepeth Coal Co. Ltd., a noted amateur genealogist, and author of a 1919 monograph "The question of the Nationalisation of the Mines". Thomas was the second son of a family of 2 boys and 6 girls of Thomas Marley and Jane Margaret Rayne. He was the nephew of the mining engineer John Marley. Many of his genealogy papers and notebooks are stored by the Northumberland Archives.