{{Short description|English poet and Anglican clergyman}} '''Edward Garrard Marsh''' (1783–1862)<ref name=gen>[http://genealogy.eproject.co.nz/fam/fam01155.html genealogy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070825172931/http://genealogy.eproject.co.nz/fam/fam01155.html |date=2007-08-25 }}</ref> was an English poet and Anglican clergyman.
==Life== He was son of the composer John Marsh.<ref name=Marsh>1750-1828: ''Concise Dictionary of National Biography''.</ref> He was a good friend of William Hayley, and associated with him and William Blake.<ref name=Bentley>See G.E. Bentley, Jr., ''The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake'', especially pp.227-230.</ref>
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.<ref name=Aylesford>[http://www.enzb.auckland.ac.nz/document/1874_-_Carleton%2C_H._The_Life_of_Henry_Williams%2C_%5BVol._I._%5D?action=null Carleton, Hugh – The life of Henry Williams, Archdeacon of Waimate] Auckland 1874.</ref> 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.<ref name=williams3>{{Cite web |url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/W/WilliamsHenry/WilliamsHenry/en |title=biography of Henry Williams |access-date=2006-12-21 |archive-date=2009-06-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619000212/http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/W/WilliamsHenry/WilliamsHenry/en |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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.<ref name="NHW1">{{cite web| last = Harvey-Williams | first = Nevil | title = The Williams Family in the 18th and 19th Centuries - Part 1|date=March 2011| url= https://www.williams.gen.nz/18and19a.html#thogos| access-date=21 December 2013}}</ref> He was also from 1821 a prebendary of Woodborough, Nottinghamshire,<ref name="WB">{{cite web|title= Location: Collegiate Stall: Southwell Minster, Prebend Of Woodborough|url= http://db.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/locations/DisplayLocation.jsp?locKey=233005| access-date=14 January 2017}}</ref> an office suppressed in 1841 by the Church Commissioners. In 1836 he was the vicar of Aylesford, Kent.<ref name="GAF410">{{Cite news | title = Gardiner, Allen Francis | last = Boase | first = George | work = Dictionary of National Biography | access-date = 7 June 2020| url = https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gardiner,_Allen_Francis_(DNB00)| ref=London: Smith, Elder & Co | year =1911| volume=20| page=410 }}</ref>
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,<ref name="NHW1"/> and then to join the CMS.<ref name=williams4>"From about 1816 he (Henry Williams) came under the tutelage of his evangelical brother-in-law, Edward Marsh". [http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp?Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=1W22 biography of Henry Williams]</ref>
The South Africa and Patagonia missionary Allen Francis Gardiner's second wife, Elizabeth Lydia, was Marsh's daughter.<ref name=gardiner>[https://anglicanhistory.org/sa/gardiner/marsh/01.html Gardiner]</ref>
==Works== *''The Book of Psalms translated into English Verse'' (1832) *''Two Hundred and Ten Psalms and Hymns, arranged in three series'' (1837) * ''Account of the Slavery of Friends in the Barbary States, towards the close of the seventeenth century'' (1848, primarily a selection from the letters of George Fox) * ''The Christian Doctrine of Sanctification : considered in eight sermons preached before the University of Oxford as the Bampton Lecture for the year 1848'' (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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