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.
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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, 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, 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, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1626 (Chapter Muniments 33256).
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; b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1564, adm. scholar 1565, matr. Easter 1561 (sic, check).
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, 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, 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.