Charles Beresford Marshall was born in Newcastle, Northumberland, England in 1899 and was the son Charles Thomas Marshall (1866-1940). His father had established the architectural practice Marshall & Tweedy with William Tweedy (1872-1951) in Newcastle upon Tyne, England in 1899. In the late 1920s a branch of the firm was opened in London, run by Charles Beresford Marshall.
By the mid-1930s, Charles Thomas Marshall appears to have reduced his involvement in the practice and John Alexander Bourn and Lionel Hugo Fewster (1904-1957 had become partners in the firm. In The London Gazette of 16 March 1937 it was announced the the partnership had been dissolved as of 1 August 1936, and that in future the business would be split into two distinct practices - Marshall, Tweedy & Bourn, run by Tweedy and Bourn, and Marshall & Tweedy, run by Charles Beresford Marshall and Fewster.
The partnership between Marshall and Fewster was dissolved in 1941 when Marshall left to join the Royal Air Force. However, Fewster may have continued to run the practice for some years after this with the title unchanged as the practice did not close until 1984.
A photograph and details of a bathroom in a London apartment block, designed by Charles Beresford Marshall is described and illustrated in 'Decorative Art' 1938 (p.94).
In 1935 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA).
Marshall's address was given 54 Grey Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1926 and 9 New Cavendish Street, Portland Place, London in 1936. By 1944 he had the rank of Squadron Leader in the RAF. He was killed in an air raid in Staines, Middlesex on 23 February 1944 and is buried in Shepperton, Middlesex.