Edward Garrard Marsh
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Edward Garrard Marsh (1783-1862)[5] was an English poet and Anglican clergyman.
He was son of the composer John Marsh[1]. He was a good friend of William Hayley, and associated with him and William Blake.[2]
He studied at Wadham College, Oxford, and on graduating became a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.[3] He was a curate at Nuneham, and then bought a chapel in Hampstead. He became Residentiary Canon at Southwell.[6]. He was vicar of Sandon, Hertfordshire and then Aylestone, Kent. He was Bampton Lecturer in 1848.[4]
He was a member of the Church Missionary Society, described as 'influential'.[7]. He had family connections with missionaries.[5]
[edit] 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
[edit] Reference
- Robert N. Essick, "Blake, Hayley, and Edward Garrard Marsh: 'An Insect of Parnassus.'" Explorations: The Age of Enlightenment. Special Series 1 (1987): 58-84.
[edit] Notes
- ^ 1750-1828: Concise Dictionary of National Biography.
- ^ See G.E. Bentley, Jr., The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake, especially pp.227-230.
- ^ Biography included on [1].
- ^ He was also from 1821 a prebend of Woodborough, an office suppressed in 1841 by the Church Commissioners.[2]
- ^ 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.[3] 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.[4]
