Edward Garrard Marsh

Edward Garrard Marsh (1783-1862) was an English poet and Anglican clergyman.

He was son of the composer John Marsh. He was a good friend of William Hayley, and associated with him and William Blake.

He 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. He was Bampton Lecturer in 1848.

He was also from 1821 a prebend of Woodborough, an office suppressed in 1841 by the Church Commissioners.

He was a member of the Church Missionary Society, described as 'influential'. .

He had family connections with missionaries. At 7 July 1813 he married Lydia Williams (Gosport, England, 17 January 1788 - 13 December 1859) at Southwell, England. She was a sister of the New Zealand missionaries Henry Williams and William Williams.

The South Africa and Patagonia missionary Allen Francis Gardiner's second wife was Marsh's daughter.

Publications

 * The Book of Psalms translated into English Verse (1832)
 * Account of the slavery of Friends in the Barbary States, towards the close of the seventeenth century
 * The Christian Doctrine of Sanctification (Bampton Lecture of 1848)