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 66. bur. North cloisters 21 June.
MARSH, William (3 son of colonel sir Charles Marsh of Reading). b. 20 July 1775; ed. at Reading and St. Edmund hall Oxf., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1807, B.D. and D.D. 1839; C. of St. Lawrence, Reading, Dec. 1800; C. of Nettlebed, Oxfordshire 1801–2; V. of Basildon and Ashampton, Berkshire 1802–14; R. of St. Peters, Colchester 1814–29; R. of St. Thomas, Birmingham, Oct. 1829 to 1839, where from frequent subject of his sermons he came to be known as Millennial Marsh; principal official and commissary of royal peculiar of deanery of Bridgnorth 1837; Inc. of St. Mary, Leamington 1839–51; hon. canon of Worcester 1848 to death; R. of Beddington, Surrey 1860 to death; author of A short catechism on the collects. Colchester 1821, 3 ed. 1824; Select passages from the sermons and conversations of a clergyman 1823, another ed. 1828; A few plain thoughts on prophecy, particularly as it relates to the latter days. Colchester 1840, 3 ed. 1843; The last warning, a commentary on the 21st chapter of St. Luke 1848, and 45 other works. d. Beddington rectory 24 Aug. 1864. Life of Rev. W. Marsh. By his daughter (1868), portrait; Colvile’s Warwickshire Worthies (1869) 529–33.
MARSH-CALDWELL, Anne (3 dau. of James Caldwell of Linley Wood near Lawton, Staffs. d. 16 Jany. 1838). b. Linley Wood 1791; m. July 1817 Arthur Cuthbert Marsh, latterly of Eastbury lodge, Herts., he d. 23 Dec. 1849; succeeded to estate of Linley Wood 1858, resumed by r.l. surname of Caldwell in addition to that of Marsh 18 May 1860; author of the following books, first editions all anonymous, Tales of the woods and fields 1836; Two old men’s tales 3 vols. 1843; Triumphs of time 3 vols. 1844; Aubrey 3 vols. 1845; Mount Sorel 2 vols. 1845; Emilia Wyndham 3 vols. 1846; Father Darcy, an historical romance 2 vols. 1846; The protestant reformation in France, or the history of the Huguenots 2 vols. 1847; Norman’s bridge or the modern Midas 3 vols. 1847; The previsions of Lady Evelyn 1847; Angela or the captain’s daughter 3 vols. 1848; Mordaunt Hall 3 vols. 1849; The Wilmingtons 3 vols. 1850; Lettice Arnold 2 vols. 1850; Time the avenger 3 vols. 1851; Ravenscliffe 3 vols. 1851; Castle Avon 3 vols. 1852; The heiress of Haughton 3 vols. 1855; Evelyn Marston 1856; The rose of Ashurst 3 vols. 1857; translated from Vitet, The song of Roland as chanted before the battle of Hastings by the minstrel Taillefer 1854. d. Linley Wood, Staffs. 5 Oct. 1874. S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record 2 ed. (1855) 735, portrait; Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxiv 575; Athenæum, ii 512 (1874).