Background
Marsden was born into a clerical family in Sydney, New South Wales: his grandfather was the Review Samuel Marsden, formerly senior chaplain at Parramatta.
Marsden was born into a clerical family in Sydney, New South Wales: his grandfather was the Review Samuel Marsden, formerly senior chaplain at Parramatta.
Trinity College.
He was the first Anglican Bishop of Bathurst. He came to England as a boy and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating Bachelor in 1855. Ordained in 1855, his first positions were curacies within the Diocese of Hereford.
From 1861 to 1869 he was Vicar of Bengeworth when he was ordained to the episcopate.
Widely praised for his "helpful teaching, sympathy and liberal gifts", he resigned his post in 1885. Returning to England, he continued to serve as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Gloucester.
After his death in, Clifton, Bristol, a memorial was erected to his memory in Saint Andrew"s Cathedral, Sydney.