Background
Marsden was born at Liverpool.
Marsden was born at Liverpool.
He was admitted sizar of Street John"s College, Cambridge, on 10 April 1823. And graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1827, Master of Arts
In 1830. He was ordained in 1827 to the curacy of Burslem, Staffordshire, and then moved to Harrow, Middlesex. From 1833 to 1844 Marsden held the rectory of Lower Tooting, Surrey, during the minority of his successor, R. West. Greaves, and from 1844 to 1851 he was vicar of Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. In 1851 he became perpetual curate of Saint Peter, Dale End, Birmingham.
Marsden was a liberal evangelical.
At a meeting of the clergy at Aylesbury on 7 December 1847 to protest against the appointment of Renn Dickson Hampden to the see of Hereford, he moved an amendment, and spoke of Hampden"s treatment as unfair treatment. Foreign five years before his death he was incapacitated him from engaging in active duty of any kind.
He died on 16 June 1870 at 37 Highfield Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham.
