Rev samuel marsden biography of mahatma

Samuel Marsden (1764-1838), apostle of New Zealand, son of a tradesman, was born at Horsforth, a village near Leeds [other sources give place of birth as Farsley, Yorkshire, England], on 28 July 1764.

Rev samuel marsden biography of mahatma

Rev samuel marsden biography of mahatma

Rev samuel marsden biography of mahatma gandhi

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Marsden, samuel – dictionary of new zealand biography – te ara

He was educated at Hull grammar school, and then took part in his father's business. Being a lad of good ability and exemplary character, he was adopted by the Elland Society, and placed at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he studied with assiduity and gained the friendship of the Rev.

Charles Simeon. Before his university education was completed he was ordained, and by a royal commission, dated 1 Jan. 1793, appointed second chaplain in New South Wales. He arrived in the colony on 2 March 1794, and took up his residence at Parramatta, where, and at Sydney and Hawkesbury, he had charge of the religious instruction of the convicts.

In 1807 he returned to England to report on the state of the colony to the government, and to solicit further as