Samuel Edward Marsden (183215 October 1912) was an Anglican bishop. He was the first
Anglican Bishop of Bathurst.
Marsden was born into a clerical family in
Sydney
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New South Wales: his grandfather was the Rev.
Samuel Marsden, formerly senior chaplain at
Parramatta.
["Deaths: Rt Rev Samuel Edward Marsden", '' The Times'', 18 October 1912, p.1] He came to England as a boy and was educated at
Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1855.
in 1855, his first positions were
curacies within the
Diocese of Hereford. From 1861 to 1869 he was
Vicar of
Bengeworth when he was ordained to the
episcopate. Widely praised for his "helpful teaching, sympathy and liberal gifts",
[ he resigned his See in 1885.
Returning to England, he lived in Clifton, Bristol and was appointed an Assistant Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol in 1892; by 1900 (after the re-erection of the Diocese of Bristol in 1897), he was Assistant Bishop of both dioceses (of Gloucester and of Bristol).]St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney
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References
1832 births
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Anglican bishops of Bathurst
Australian people of English descent
1912 deaths
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