Edward Garrard Marsh
Edward Garrard Marsh (1783–1862)[1] was an English poet and Anglican clergyman.
He was son of the composer John Marsh.[2] He was a good friend of William Hayley, and associated with him and William Blake.[3]
He studied at Wadham College, Oxford, and on graduating became a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. He was a curate at Nuneham, and then bought a chapel in Hampstead. He became Residentiary Canon at Southwell. He was vicar of Sandon, Hertfordshire and then Aylesford, Kent.[4] He was Bampton Lecturer in 1848.
At 7 July 1813 he married Lydia Williams (Gosport, England, 17 January 1788 - 13 December 1859) at Southwell, England. She was a sister of Rev. Henry Williams and Rev. William Williams.[5] Their grandfather Rev. Thomas Williams was a Congregational minister.
While he had connections to non-conformist family members, Edward's beliefs followed that of low church evangelical Anglicanism.[6]
He was also from 1821 a prebend of Woodborough, an office suppressed in 1841 by the Church Commissioners.
He was a member of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) and was described as 'influential' in the decision of Henry Williams and William Williams to convert to Anglicanism in February 1818,[6] and then to join the CMS.[7]
The South Africa and Patagonia missionary Allen Francis Gardiner's second wife was Marsh's daughter.[8]
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 (Bampton Lecture of 1848)
Literature
- Robert N. Essick, "Blake, Hayley, and Edward Garrard Marsh: 'An Insect of Parnassus.'" Explorations: The Age of Enlightenment. Special Series 1 (1987): 58-84.
- Ed. Brian Robins, "The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of Gentleman Composer (1752-1828)", Stuyvesant, NJ (1998 and 2011)
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Notes
- ↑ genealogy
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Carleton, Hugh – The life of Henry Williams, Archdeacon of Waimate Auckland 1874.
- ↑ biography of Henry Williams
- 1 2 Harvey-Williams, Nevil (March 2011). "The Williams Family in the 18th and 19th Centuries - Part 1". Retrieved 21 December 2013.
- ↑ "From about 1816 he (Henry Williams) came under the tutelage of his evangelical brother-in-law, Edward Marsh". biography of Henry Williams
- ↑ Gardiner