Edward Garrard Marsh

Edward Garrard Marsh (1783–1862)[1] was an English poet and Anglican clergyman.

Life

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]

Marsh 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 Marsh 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, Marsh's beliefs followed that of low church evangelical Anglicanism.[6] He was also from 1821 a prebendary of Woodborough, Nottinghamshire,[7] an office suppressed in 1841 by the Church Commissioners. In 1836 he was the vicar of Aylesford, Kent.[8]

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.[9]

The South Africa and Patagonia missionary Allen Francis Gardiner's second wife, Elizabeth Lydia, was Marsh's daughter.[10]

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)

Notes
  1. genealogy Archived 2007-08-25 at the Wayback Machine
  2. 1750-1828: Concise Dictionary of National Biography.
  3. See G.E. Bentley, Jr., The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake, especially pp.227-230.
  4. Carleton, Hugh – The life of Henry Williams, Archdeacon of Waimate Auckland 1874.
  5. biography of Henry Williams
  6. Harvey-Williams, Nevil (March 2011). "The Williams Family in the 18th and 19th Centuries - Part 1". Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  7. "Location: Collegiate Stall: Southwell Minster, Prebend Of Woodborough". Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  8. Boase, George (1911). "Gardiner, Allen Francis". Dictionary of National Biography. 20. p. 410. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  9. "From about 1816 he (Henry Williams) came under the tutelage of his evangelical brother-in-law, Edward Marsh". biography of Henry Williams
  10. Gardiner
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