Rev samuel marsden biography template printable

By Matthew Allen. A dual-publication with the Female Factory Online. Portrait of Reverend Samuel Marsden , Watercolour, possibly by Richard Read Junior.

Rev samuel marsden biography template printable: In , Reverend Samuel Marsden,

Celebrating his centenary in , the Windsor and Richmond Gazette eulogised him as:. For his supporters, then and since, he was a moral and saintly evangelical pioneer; for his enemies, a greedy and hypocritical flogging-parson. Between these two conflicting visions the real Samuel Marsden has almost disappeared. Marsden lived an extraordinarily full life and, given his familiarity to colonial historians, professional and amateur, and the accessibility of an excellent online biography , I will not pretend to offer a comprehensive narrative.

Marsden was born on 24 June at Farsley, Yorkshire, into an artisan family. He was sponsored to attend Hull Grammar in and subsequently sent to Magdalene College, Cambridge, as a sizar a student servant , in Before he could graduate he was persuaded to accept a position as the second chaplain of New South Wales, ordained without a degree, and with his new wife, Elizabeth, departed England, arriving in Cadi Sydney , Cadigal Country in March