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Marsden, Thomas, ca. 1759-1806
GB-2014-WSA-11847 · Person · ca. 1759-1806

MARSDEN, THOMAS, son of Thomas Marsden, Wakefield, Yorks., and Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Bowlby, Durham, attorney; b.; adm. 27 Jan 1772; KS (aged 14) 1773; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1777, matr. 30 May 1777, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1777 – void 25 Jun 1791 (expiry year of grace as V. Skipton from 15 Dec 1790); BA 1781; MA 1784; ordained deacon (Oxford) 28 Oct 1781; Vicar of Great Torrington, Devon 25 Feb 1785-90; Vicar of Skipton-in-Craven and Kildwick, Yorks., from 12 Jun 1790; m. 3 Jan 1791 Elizabeth Dixon, Kildwick, Yorks.; buried Kildwick, Yorks., 22 Jan 1806.
Marsden, Peter Bowlby, 1760-1827
GB-2014-WSA-11846 · Person · 1760-1827

MARSDEN, PETER BOWLBY, brother of Thomas Marsden (qv); bapt. 19 Feb 1760 (IGI); adm. 27 May 1772; Min. Can. 1773; KS (aged 14) 1774; left Christmas 1774; adm. solicitor, practising in Durham (still in Law List 1822); m. 1st, Olive Greve, York; m. 2nd, 29 Dec 1789 Elizabeth Hull, St. Mary-le-Bow, Durham; d. 12 May 1827.
Marsden, John, ca. 1730-1796
GB-2014-WSA-11845 · Person · ca. 1730-1796

MARSDEN, JOHN, son of William Marsden, Barnsley and Sheffield, Yorks., Surveyor of Woods North of the Trent, attorney, and Hannah, widow of Timothy Heywood, Sheffield, apothecary, and dau. of --- Crabtree, Houghton Hall, Yorks.; b.; adm. (aged 12) Mar 1742/3 (Preston's); KS 1745; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1749, matr. 26 May 1749, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1749 – void 13 Feb 1762 (expiry year of grace as R. Llandyssil from 17 Feb 1761); BA 1753; MA 1756; BD and DD 1777; ordained priest (Oxford) 23 Feb 1754/5; Chaplain to Hon. Robert Hay-Drummond (qv) when Bishop of St. Asaph in 1760, and subsequently to him as Archbishop of York; Precentor of St. Asaph from 17 Jan 1760; Rector of Llandyssil, Montgomeryshire 1761; Prebendary of Southwell from 27 Mar 1762; Vicar of Feliskirk, Yorks. 1765; Vicar of Birstall, Yorks., 1768 (disp. to hold with Feliskirk); Prebendary of York 7 May 1772 – Mar 1785, res.; Rector of Bolton Percy, Yorks., 1774; Vicar of Felkirk, Yorks., 1777-93; of Burntwood Lodge, Yorks.; m. 1st, Mary, dau. of John Acton, The Beach, Macclesfield, Cheshire; m. 2nd, Mary ---; m. 3rd, Esther, dau. of Henry De la Bere, York; d. 25 Feb 1796. [Presumably ordained deacon (Gloucester) 3 Feb 1754/5, priest (Oxford) 23 Feb 1755/6; Curate, Barnburgh, Yorks., in 1763-4].
Marryat, Arthur, 1832-1894
GB-2014-WSA-11841 · Person · 1832-1894

MARRYAT, ARTHUR, third son of Charles Marryat, Laurence Pountney Lane, London, merchant, and Caroline, sister of Mayow Short (adm. 1809, qv); b. 12 May 1832; adm. 25 Sep 1845 (G); QS 1846; left 1850; banker, firm Price Marryat & Co., King William Street, London; m. Jessie, dau. of J. Jackson; d. at Richmond, Virginia, USA 28 Oct 1894.
Marre, ---, fl. 1626
GB-2014-WSA-019322 · Person · fl. 1626

MARRE, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1626 (Chapter Muniments 33256).
Marnell, Richard, 1787-1838
GB-2014-WSA-11830 · Person · 1787-1838

MARNELL, RICHARD, son of Richard Marnell, St. Martin’s in the Fields, London, and Louisa Walton (IGI); b. 3 Feb 1787 (or 1786 (IGI)); adm.; at school 1798; KS 1801; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1804, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 16 May 1804, Canoneer Student 1805; BA 1808; MA 1811; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 13 May 1814; advocate, Supreme Court, Calcutta, from 1821; Counsel for Paupers 1825; d. at Calcutta 2 Aug 1838.
Marmion, Gabriel, fl. 1564
GB-2014-WSA-11829 · Person · fl. 1564

MARMION, GABRIEL; b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1564, adm. scholar 1565, matr. Easter 1561 (sic, check).
Markham, William, 1796-1852
GB-2014-WSA-11822 · Person · 1796-1852

MARKHAM, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Markham (adm. 1767, qv); b. 28 Jun 1796; adm. 1804 (third quarter) (G); KS 1811; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 9 May 1815; of Becca Hall, Yorks.; DL JP Yorkshire West Riding; Lieut., Yorkshire Hussars 3 May 1818; Capt., 3 May 1820; contested (Cons) Ripon 1832; Col., 2nd West Yorkshire Militia 1834; m. 12 Feb 1828 Lucy Anne, second dau. of William Holbech, Farnborough, Warwicks.; d. 26 Jan 1852.
Markham, William, 1760-1815
GB-2014-WSA-11821 · Person · 1760-1815

MARKHAM, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Markham (adm. 1733, qv); b. 5 Apr 1760; adm. 3 Feb 1767; KS (Capt. ) 1773; Writer, EICS Bengal 1777; arrived in India 3 Jul 1777; Assistant to Resident, Benares 1778; acting Postmaster 1779; Resident, Benares Jan 1781 – Mar 1783; Private Secretary to Warren Hastings (qv) 1782; returned to England Nov 1783, owing to persecution by Sir Philip Francis; purchased Becca Hall, Yorks.; assisted Hastings during his trial; one of donors of Warren Hastings cup; m. 20 Aug 1795 Elizabeth, fifth dau. of Oldfield Bowles, North Aston, Oxfordshire; d. 1 Jan 1815.
Markham, William, 1719-1807
Markham, William, 1719-1807
GB-2014-WSA-00977 · Person · 1719-1807

MARKHAM, WILLIAM, eldest son of Maj. William Markham, Barrack-Master of Kinsale, co. Cork, and Elizabeth, dau. of George Markham, Worksop, Notts.; bapt. 9 Apr 1719; adm. (aged 14) 21 Jun 1733; KS (Capt. ) 1734; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1738, matr. 6 Jun 1738, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1738 – void by marriage 18 Jun 1759, Tutor 1742-52, Junior Censor 1751; BA 1742; MA 1745; BCL and DCL 1752; adm. Gray’s Inn 29 Jan 1742/3; ordained priest (Oxford) 17 Dec 1748; Head Master of the School Feb 1753 – Mar 1764; Chaplain in Ordinary to George II 1756 (still 1760); Prebendary of Durham 22 Jun 1759 – Feb 1771; Dean of Rochester 20 Feb 1765 – Oct 1767; Vicar of Boxley, Kent 1765-71; Dean of Christ Church, Oxford 23 Oct 1767 – Jan 1777; consecrated Bishop of Chester 17 Feb 1771; Preceptor to Prince of Wales and Prince Frederick 12 Apr 1771 – 28 May 1776; Archbishop of York from 20 Jan 1777; Lord High Almoner from 21 Jan 1777; Privy Councillor 31 Jan 1777; attacked in House of Lords by Duke of Grafton and Earl of Shelburne 30 May 1777, for having preached doctrines subversive of the Constitution in a sermon at St. Mary-le-Bow Feb 1777; Markham’s “pernicious” doctrines were also attacked by Earl of Chatham; had a narrow escape at his house in Bloomsbury Square during Gordon Riots; at one time an intimate friend of Edmund Burke, whose Philiosophical Enquiry, 1756, he corrected for the press, and afterwards revised; a staunch friend and supporter of Warren Hastings (qv); “our great glory”, wrote Jeremy Bentham (qv), “was Dr. Markham : he was a tall portly man and “high he held his head” … We stood prodigiously in awe of him; indeed he was an object of adoration” (Bentham, Works, 1843, x, 30); during his Head mastership the old Granary in Dean’s Yard was removed and the houses on the Terrace probably built; donor of the scenes for the Latin Play, designed by James Stuart and in use from 1758 to 1808; Busby Trustee 18 Mar 1756; m. 16 Jun 1759 Sarah, dau. of John Goddard, Rotterdam, merchant; d. 3 Nov 1807. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey. DNB.