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HERBERT MARSH (1757–1839)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 769 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HERBERT MARSH (1757–1839)  ,
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English divine, was born at
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Faversham, Kent, on the loth of December 1757, and was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he was elected
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fellow in 1782, having been second wrangler and second Smith's prizeman . For some years he studied at
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Leipzig; and between 1793 and 18o1 published in four volumes a
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translation of J . D . Michaelis's Introduction to the New Testament, with notes of his own, in which he may be said to have introduced German methods of research into English biblical scholarship . His
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History of the Politics of
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Great Britain and France (1799) brought him much
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notice and a pension from William Pitt . In 1807 he was appointed Lady Margaret professor of divinity at Cambridge, and lectured to large audiences on biblical criticism, substituting English for the traditional Latin . Both here, and afterwards as bishop of
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Llandaff (1816) and of
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Peterborough (1819). he stoutly opposed hymn-singing, Calvinism,
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Roman Catholicism, and the Evangel- See obituary by Dr Henry Woodward (with portrait) in Geol. ical
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movement as represented by Charles Simeon and the Bible Society . Among his writings are Lectures on the Criticism and Interpretation of the Bible (1828), A
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Comparative View of the Churches of England and Rome (1814), and Home Pelasgicae (1315) . He died at Peterborough on the 1st of May 1839 .

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