Samuel marsden australian dictionary of biography

Church of England chaplain, missionary, agriculturalist, magistrate (1765–1838)

For the inaugural Bishop of Bathurst, see Samuel Marsden (bishop).

Samuel Marsden (25 June 1765 – 12 May 1838) was an English-born priest of the Church of England in Australia and a prominent member of the Church Missionary Society.

Samuel Edward Marsden (), Anglican bishop, was born on 1 February and baptized at St John's Church, Parramatta, on 9 March, son of Thomas.

Early clergyman and missionary to New Zealand was born at Farsley, Yorkshire, England, on 28 July (Jnl and Proc.

Samuel Marsden (), chaplain, missionary and farmer, was born on 24 June at Farsley, Yorkshire, England, the son of Thomas Marsden.

MARSDEN, SAMUEL (b.

Samuel Marsden (25 June – 12 May ) was an English-born priest of the Church of England in Australia and a prominent member of the Church Missionary.

He played a leading role in bringing Christianity to New Zealand. Marsden was a prominent figure in early New South Wales and Australian history, partly through his ecclesiastical offices as the colony's senior Church of England cleric and as a pioneer of the Australian wool industry, but also for his employment of convicts for farming and his actions as a magistrate at Parramatta, both of which attracted contemporary criticism.

Early life

Born in Farsley, near Pudsey, Yorkshire in England as the son of a Wesleyan blacksmith turned farmer, Marsden attended the village school and spent some years assisting his father on the farm.

In his early twenties