Modern English biography

(1864). MARRYAT, HORACE (youngest son of Joseph Marryat, M.P. Sandwich, _d._ 1824). _b._ 1818; author of A residence in Jutland, the Danish isles and Copenhagen 2 vols. 1860; One year in Sweden, including a visit to the isle of Götland 2 vols. 1862. _d._ Jermyn st. London 10 March 1887. MARRYAT, JOSEPH (brother of preceding). _b._ 1790; M.P. Sandwich 1826–35. _d._ Warwick st. Eccleston sq. London 24 Sep. 1876. MARRYAT, JOSEPH HENRY. _b._ 1830; captain R.N. 23 June 1862; retired R.A. 9 March 1878; C.B. 2 June 1877. _d._ the cottage, Earlswood common, Redhill, Surrey 29 Nov. 1881. MARRYAT, SAMUEL FRANCIS (youngest son of Frederick Marryat, captain in the navy and novelist 1792–1848). _b._ 1826; midshipman of H.M. ship Samarang; a goldhunter in California 1850; returned to England 1853; author of Borneo and the Indian archipelago, with drawings from sketches by the author 1848; Mountains and molehills: or recollections of a burnt journal, with drawings from sketches by the author 1855. _d._ Kensington Gore, London 12 July 1855. MARSDEN, ANDREW. _b._ Nottingham; a pugilist 6 feet 1½ inches in height; beat Edward Baldwin or O’Baldwin at Tring, Herts. £50 a side 3 rounds 21 Oct. 1863; fought Joseph Wormald of London for £200 a side and the champion’s belt at Horley 4 Jany. 1865, when Wormald won after 18 rounds in 37 minutes; fought Baldwin again £100 a side, 11 rounds in 16 minutes at Holme station near Peterborough 25 Sep. 1866, the ring was broken into by Marsden’s party and the referee awarded the stakes to Baldwin; turf commission agent at 2 St. Anne’s Valley, Hunger hill, Nottingham to death. _d._ suddenly at Nottingham 21 July 1892. _bur._ General cemet. Nottingham 23 July. _Modern boxing. By Pendragon_ (1879) 83–8; _Illust. sport. news_, _ii_ 284 (1863), _portrait_. MARSDEN, GEORGE. _b._ Manchester 16 March 1773; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Stockport 1793, in London 1796–8, 1816–21 and 1830–3, in Macclesfield 1798–1801, in Manchester 1800–1802 and 1824–7, in Sheffield 1836–9; supernumerary at Glossop 1842 to death; president of the Conference 1821 and 1831; general sec. of Wesleyan missionary soc.; delegate to the Wesleyan ch. in Canada 1833; author of A treatise on the nature and importance of true religion, with an account of the death of some christians and unbelievers 1813. _d._ Hadfield 16 May 1858. MARSDEN, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ Kennington, Surrey 1 Oct. 1812; articled to Russell and Son of Southwark, solicitors; admitted solicitor 1835, in practice at 37 Queen st. city of London to death; vestry clerk of St. Michael Paternoster Royal, city of London 1835, and ward clerk of ward of Vintry, city of London 1837; vestry clerk of Camberwell 1850 to 1892 when he was entertained at a public dinner; instrumental in carrying through parliament the Dulwich college act 1858. _d._ 113 The Grove, Camberwell, Surrey 12 May 1893. _bur._ Forest hill cemet. _W. H. Blanch’s Parish of Camberwell_ (1877) 186, 189, _portrait_. MARSDEN, ISAAC MOSES. Founder of firm of E. Moses and Son, slopsellers, 137 Ratcliff highway, London 1832; tailors and outfitters at 154, 155, 156 and 157 Minories, and at 83, 84, 85, 86 Aldgate, city of London from 1846; the firm published the following books, The past the present and the future. A public address on the opening of the new establishment of Elias Moses and Son 1846; Fashions. Price lists 1849–57; The growth of an important branch of British industry. The readymade clothing system 1860; Gossip on dress 1863; The philosophy of dress 1864; The tercentenary of William Shakespeare 1864; A popular history of London 1866 part i. _d._ 4 Kensington gardens terrace, London 26 July 1884. MARSDEN, JOHN BUXTON. _b._ Liverpool 1803; sizar of St. John’s coll. Camb. 10 April 1823; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; C. of Burslem, Staffs. 1827; C. of Harrow; R. of Lower Tooting, Surrey 1833–44; V. of Great Missenden, Bucks. 1844–51; P.C. of St. Peter, Dale End, Birmingham 1851 to death; edited The Christian Observer 1859–69; author of The history of the early Puritans 1850; The history of the later Puritans 1852; History of Christian churches and sects 2 vols. 1856, new ed. 1858. _d._ 37 Highfield road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 16 June 1870. _Christian Observer_, _Aug. 1870 pp._ 633–4. MARSDEN, JOHN HOWARD (1 son of rev. Wm. Marsden, vicar of Eccles, Lancs.) _b._ Wigan 1803; entered Manchester school 6 Aug. 1817, head scholar 1822, exhibitioner to St. John’s coll. Camb. 1822, fellow 1827–41, Bell univ. scholar 1823; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829, B.D. 1836; F.R.S.L.; Seatonian prizeman 1829; select preacher at Camb. 1834, 1837 and 1847; R. of Great Oakley, Essex 1840–89; Hulsean lecturer 1843 and 1844; Disney professor of archæology, Camb. 1851–65; residentiary canon of Manchester cath. 1858–71; member of Numismatic soc. 1863; author of Philomorus Notes on the Latin poems of sir Thomas More 1842; An examination of certain passages in our Lord’s conversation with Nicodemus. Eight Hulsean lectures 1844; The evils which have resulted from a misapprehension of our Lord’s miracles. Eight Hulsean lectures 1845; Two lectures upon archæology 1852; A brief memoir of lieut.-col. W. M. Leake 1864; College life in the time of James the first, diary of Sir Simon d’ Ewes 1851. _d._ Grey’s Friars, Colchester 24 Jany. 1891. _The Numismatic Chronicle_ 1891. Proceedings p._ 22; _The Times 26 Jany. 1891 p._ 6; _Manchester school register_, _iii_ 126–7 (1874). MARSDEN, THOMAS. _b._ 1810; ed. C.C. coll. Camb., Mawson scholar, B.A. 1834; V. of Child-Wickham, Gloucs. 1843–57; R. of Burstow, Surrey 1858–74; R. of St. John, Horsleydown, London 1874–81; chaplain of St. Olave’s workhouse, Southwark 1874–80; resided at 115 Paulet road, Camberwell; author of The sacred steps of creation, or the revealed genetic theology illustrated by geology and astronomy 1865. _d._ Leigh Bank, Sutton, Surrey 13 Dec. 1890. MARSDEN, WILLIAM. _b._ Sheffield, Aug. 1796; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1827; M.D. Erlangen 1848; established in 1828 a small dispensary in Greville st. Hatton Garden, to which the poor were admitted without any formality, the only hospital in London which received cholera patients 1832, it was moved into Gray’s Inn road 1843, on this site was built the royal free hospital and Marsden became senior surgeon; opened a small house in Cannon row, Westminster, for reception of cancer patients 1851, this became the Cancer hospital, Brompton in 1861, of which Marsden was senior surgeon; author of Symptoms and treatment of malignant diarrhœa better known by the name of Asiatic or malignant cholera 1834, 4 ed. 1871; translated A treatise on cancer of the breast by A. A. L. M. Velpeau 1856. _d._ 65 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 16 Jany.