Marshall Thomas Wilton Eady (born Summer Hill, Sydney, Australia 18 November 1882; died Melbourne, Australia 8 December 1947) was an engineer He was the oldest child of William Wilton Eady, a native at the time, and a Scottish woman named Barbara Rose. When Eady's father died in 1892, the family moved to Melbourne, where his uncle, Sir William McPherson, cared for them.[1]
Eady was an engineering apprentice at Austral Otis before joining his uncle's firm, McPherson's Pty. Ltd., where he remained until his death.
McPherson died of a coronary occlusion at the wheel of his car in 1947. He was survived by his wife and three children.[2]