Modern English biography

hospital and at cancer hospital. _The Hospital 14 May 1887 p._ 103. MARSH, CHARLES WILLIAMS. Originated Shakespearian jesting in the circus ring; clown with Wm. Batty and Joseph Holloway many years; played clown in pantomime of Crotchet and Quaver at Covent garden theatre Christmas 1844; attached to the Vine hotel, Great college st. Liverpool. _d._ Vine hotel, Liverpool, July 1866. _Era 5 Aug. 1866 p._ 10. MARSH, EDWARD GARRARD (son of John Marsh of St. Thomas’, Salisbury). _b._ 1783; ed. Wadham coll. Oxf. 1800–4; fellow of Oriel 1804–14; B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; Bampton lecturer 1848; P.C. of North Hincksey, Berks. 1820–8; prebendary of Southwell, Notts. 18 Oct. 1821 to death; V. of Sandon, Herts. 1828–34; V. of Yardley, Herts. 1828–34; R. of Waltham, Lincs. 1834–41; V. of Aylesford, Kent 1841 to death; translated The book of psalms 1832; The treatise of John Chrysostom on the priesthood 1844; author of Eight sermons preached before the university of Oxford 1814; A brief summary of the evidence of the christian religion 1829; Seven sermons on the ten commandments 1832; Two hundred and ten psalms and hymns adapted to seventy tunes 1837; Essays on some of the prophecies 1844; The christian doctrine of sanctification. Bampton lectures 1848. _d._ Aylesford 20 Sep. 1862. MARSH, SIR HENRY, 1 Baronet (son of rev. Robert Marsh). _b._ Loughrea, co. Galway 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1812, M.D. 1840; apprenticed to sir Philip Crampton, surgeon 1814–18; M.R.C.P. Dublin 1818, pres. 1841, 1842, 1845 and 1846; assistant phys. to Stevens’ hospital, Dublin 1820; professor of medicine at college of surgeons, Dublin 1827–32; F.K.Q.C.P. Dublin 28 Oct. 1839; phys. in ordinary to queen in Ireland 1837; created baronet 26 Feb. 1839; author of Cases of jaundice with dissections 1822; The evolution of light from the living human subject 1842; Clinical lectures with observations on practical medicine, edited by J. S. Hughes 1869. _d._ 9 Merrion sq. Dublin 1 Dec. 1860, marble bust by J. H. Foley in King’s and Queen’s College of physicians in Dublin. _Dublin univ. mag. xviii_ 688 _and lvii_ 222; _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iii_ 338 (1861). MARSH, SIR HENRY, 2 Baronet. _b._ Charlemont st. Dublin 1821; cornet 3 dragoon guards 5 Aug. 1842, major 24 July 1857, sold out 17 May 1861; succeeded 1 Dec. 1860. _d._ 6 Victoria square, Westminster 27 May 1868. _I.L.N. lii_ 570 (1868). MARSH, JOHN BARLING. _b._ 1807; entered R.N. 1822; lieut. R.N. 2 Feb. 1830; commander of the Heroine on coast of Africa 1849–51; captain 21 Feb. 1856; retired V.A. 1 Feb. 1879. _d._ 74A Lansdowne road, Kensington park, London 12 July 1879. _The Times 17 July 1879 p._ 11. MARSH, JOHN FINCH (son of Thomas Marsh). _b._ Chatham, Kent 4 March 1789; linen draper Whitechapel, London 1818–28; a minister of the Friends 1818; visited all the meetings in England 1822 etc.; visited Friends in Ireland 1837, 1856 and 1865; with Sarah Harris and Mary B. Brown went to Holland and Germany. _d._ Park lane, Croydon 7 Oct. 1873. _A memoir of J. F. Marsh, by his daughter P. Pitt_ (1873). MARSH, JOHN FITCHETT (son of John Marsh, solicitor). _b._ Wigan 24 Oct. 1818; solicitor at Warrington 1839 to 1873 and town clerk 1847–58; resided at Chepstow 1873 to death; contributed to the Historical society of Lancashire and Cheshire ‘On some correspondence of Dr. Priestley’ 1855 and 4 other articles; author of Notes of the inventory of the effects of Mrs. Milton widow of the poet 1855; On the engraved portraits and pretended portraits of Milton 1860; Annals of Chepstow castle 1883. _d._ Hardwick house, Chepstow 24 June 1880. _Palatine note book_, _ii_ 168–72 (1882). MARSH, JOHN WILLIAM (son of rev. Edward Garrard Marsh 1783–1862). _b._ 1822; ed. Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1856; C. of Aylesford near Maidstone 1845–8; V. of Bleasby, Notts. 1848–74; R. of St. Michael, Winchester 1874 to death; author of A memoir of A. F. Gardiner 1857; First fruits of the South American mission 1873; Narrative of the progress of the South American mission 1883. _d._ Downside, Winchester 14 Dec. 1882. MARSH, MATTHEW HENRY (eld. son of rev. Matthew Marsh, chancellor of diocese of Salisbury). _b._ Winterslow near Salisbury 12 Sep. 1810; ed. at Westminster 1822–8, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835; barrister I.T. 29 April 1836; went to New South Wales 1840 where he farmed sheep on a very extensive scale for 14 years; member of legislative council of N.S.W. 1851–54; M.P. Salisbury 1857–68; F.R.G.S.; author of Overland from Southampton to Queensland 1867. _d._ Bournemouth 26 Jany. 1881. _Solicitors’ Journal xxv_ 300 (1881). MARSH, ROBERT. Receiver-general of Westminster abbey 1844 to death. _d._ Little Cloisters, Westminster Abbey 5 June 1865 aged