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].