Edward Garrard Marsh

Edward Garrard Marsh

Edward Garrard Marsh (1783-1862) [http://genealogy.eproject.co.nz/fam/fam01155.html] was an English poet and Anglican clergyman.

He was son of the composer John Marsh [1750-1828: "Concise Dictionary of National Biography".] . He was a good friend of William Hayley, and associated with him and William Blake. [See G.E. Bentley, Jr., "The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake", especially pp.227-230.]

He studied at Wadham College, Oxford, and on graduating became a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. [Biography included on [http://www.waitangi.com/williams/18and19d.html] .] He was a curate at Nuneham, and then bought a chapel in Hampstead. He became Residentiary Canon at Southwell. [http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:QEH-aqJ2t_UJ:www.waitangi.com/williams/18and19c.html+%22church+missionary+society%22+Edward+Marsh&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=16] . He was vicar of Sandon, Hertfordshire and then Aylestone, Kent. He was Bampton Lecturer in 1848. [He was also from 1821 a prebend of Woodborough, an office suppressed in 1841 by the Church Commissioners. [http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:YDUPyRWyybsJ:web.ukonline.co.uk/woodborough-heritage/buckland/buckland11chpVIII.html+%22Edward+Garrard+Marsh%22&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=10] ]

He was a member of the Church Missionary Society, described as 'influential'. [http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/W/WilliamsHenry/WilliamsHenry/en] . He had family connections with missionaries. [The New Zealand missionary Henry Williams was brother to Marsh's wife Lydia. "From about 1816 he came under the tutelage of his evangelical brother-in-law, Edward Marsh". [http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp?Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=1W22] Henry's brother William Williams followed Henry to New Zealand. The South Africa and Patagonia missionary Allen Francis Gardiner's second wife was Marsh's daughter. [http://anglicanhistory.org/sa/gardiner/marsh/01.html] ]

Works

*"The Book of Psalms translated into English Verse" (1832)
* "Account of the slavery of Friends in the Barbary States, towards the close of the seventeenth century"
* "The Christian Doctrine of Sanctification" (1848) Bampton Lectures

References

* Robert N. Essick, "Blake, Hayley, and Edward Garrard Marsh: 'An Insect of Parnassus.'" Explorations: The Age of Enlightenment. Special Series 1 (1987): 58-84.

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