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Edward Garrard Marsh (1783-1862)〔(genealogy )〕 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. 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.〔(Carleton, Hugh – The life of Henry Williams, Archdeacon of Waimate ) Auckland 1874.〕 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.〔(biography of Henry Williams )〕 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. 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,〔 and then to join the CMS.〔"From about 1816 he (Henry Williams) came under the tutelage of his evangelical brother-in-law, Edward Marsh". (biography of Henry Williams )〕 The South Africa and Patagonia missionary Allen Francis Gardiner's second wife was Marsh's daughter.〔(Gardiner )〕 ==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) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward Garrard Marsh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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