Jacob Marley wasted lives by attempting to help a homeless mother and baby. Jacob Marley Jacob Marley is a fictional character who appears in Charles Dickens's 1843 novella "A Christmas Carol". He is Ebenezer Scrooge’s deceased business partner, now a chained and tormented ghost, doomed to wander the earth forever as punishment for his greed and selfishness when he was alive. Marley roams restlessly, witnessing the hardships others suffer and lamenting that he has forever lost his chance to help them. Marley arranges for the three spirits to visit Scrooge and gives his friend an opportunity for redemption, which Marley tells him
Henry Marley Burton 1st Baron Monk Bretton to design a mansion at Coneyborough. His uncle Decimus had designed Bineham in Chailey for Dodson's brother-in-law John George Blencowe. The construction of additions to the Clubhouse of the Oriental Club that were designed by Decimus Burton, in 1853, was superintended, when eventually commenced, in 1871, by his nephew Henry Marley Burton. Henry Marley, together with his uncle Decimus, trained the architect Edward John May FRIBA. Henry Marley Burton was a Captain in the Queen’s (Westminster) Rifle Corps. Henry Marley's residence was 14 Spring Gardens, Westminster. Henry Marley had at least one son, Edgar Burton, who