Alice Julia Marshall was born in Stirling in 1891 and educated at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. She gained the qualification MB ChB in 1917 and then spent virtually the whole of her career in the Pathology Department of Glasgow Royal Infirmary, where she held the positions of Assistant Pathologist and Lecturer in Pathology to the University of Glasgow. She retired in 1956 and died in 1987 .
From the guide to the Papers of Alice Julia Marshall, 1891-1987, pathologist and lecturer in Pathology, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 1910-1981, (NHS Greater Glasgow Archive)