Marnal

Marnal was a Time Lord. He was the previous owner of the Doctor's TARDIS. In his childhood, the Doctor considered Marnal to be his hero.

Marnal was the Castellan on Gallifrey before the Doctor left the planet. Marnal was exiled to Earth in 1883. He was placed in the care of a Mrs. Gate, who was possibly Penelope Gate, herself possibly the Doctor's mother. Under the name Marnal Gate, Marnal became a science fiction author, and met Mervyn Peake, who illustrated one of his novels, and H.G. Wells. Marnal had amnesia about Gallifrey and the Time Lords, but he remembered enough to write novels containing the entire history of Gallifrey; Marnal did not know that Gallifrey was a real place.

Marnal had a son on Gallifrey. He also had four adopted daughters on Earth from his wives' previous marriages, whom he described as parasites.

His twelfth incarnation died in 2005 of old age and he regenerated into a younger man. The surge of artron energy restoring his synapses in the regeneration returned his memory.

His thirteenth and final incarnation was killed by the Vore. Before he died, the Doctor told him that he was his childhood hero. (EDA: The Gallifrey Chronicles)

Works
Marnal's novels include:
 * The Kraglon Inheritance
 * The Witch Lords
 * The Emergents
 * The Giants
 * The Hand of Time (published in 1976)
 * The Time of Neman
 * The Beautiful People
 * Marnal's Journeys or the Modern Crusoe
 * Day of Wrath
 * The Monkey to Time saga (published in November 2001)
 * Valley of the Lost

He once wrote an episode of Star Trek, but it was subsequently altered so much that he removed his name from it. (EDA: The Gallifrey Chronicles)