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Marshall had been Mary Paley's professor of political economy at Cambridge and the two were married in 1877, forcing Marshall to leave his position as a Fellow ( college ) of St John's College, Cambridge in order to comply with celibacy rules at the university.

He became the first principal at University College, Bristol, which was the institution that later became the University of Bristol, again lecturing on political economy and economics.

He perfected his Economics of Industry while at Bristol, and published it more widely in England as an economic curriculum ; its simple form stood upon sophisticated theoretical foundations.

Marshall achieved a measure of fame from this work, and upon the death of William Jevons in 1882, Marshall became the leading British economist of the scientific school of his time.