MARSH, HERBERT: Bishop of Peterborough; b. at Faversham (44 m. e.s.e. of London), Kent, Dec. 10, 1757; d. at Peterborough May 1, 1839. He was educated at the King's School, Canterbury, and St. John's College, Cambridge (B.A., 1779; M.A., 1782; B.D., 1792; D.D., 1808). In 1779 he became a fellow of his college. In 1785 he traveled on the continent and studied at Leipsic for some years with interruptions. In 1807 he was appointed Lady Margaret professor of divinity at Cambridge, where he instituted an innovation by delivering his lectures in English instead of Latin. In Aug., 1816, he was made bishop of Llandaff, and in 1819 he was transferred to Peterborough. As bishop he introduced many reforms in the administration of his dioceses. Marsh was a zealous opponent both of Calvinism and of Roman Catholicism and wrote many controversial pamphlets. Some of his more important works are: The History of the Politicks of Great Britain and France (2 vols., London, 1800);

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A Course of Lectures, containing a Description . . . of Divinity (6 parts, 1809-22); A Comparative View of the Churches of England and Rome (Cambridge, 1814); Horæ Pelasgicæ (only part 1 published, 1815); Lectures on the Criticism and Interpretation of the Bible (1828); and Lectures on the Authenticity and Credibility of the New Testament, and on the Authority of the Old Testament (London, 1840). He also translated the Introduction to the New Testament of J. D. Michaelis (4 vols., Cambridge, 1793-1801).

Bibliography: T. Baker, Hist. of the College of St. John, Cambridge, ed. J. E. B. Mayor, ii. 735-898, Cambridge, 1869; I. Milner, Strictures on Some of the Publications of Rev. H. Marsh, London, 1813; DNB, xxxvi. 211-215.

MARSHALL, JOHN TURNER: English Baptist; b. at Farsley (5 m. w. of Leeds), Yorkshire, May 13, 1850. He was educated at Rawdon College and Owens and Baptist Colleges, Manchester (B.A., London University, 1870). From 1877 to 1898 he was classical tutor in Manchester Baptist College, and since the latter year has been president of the same institution, while since 1904 he has also been lecturer on the history of Christian doctrine in Manchester University. He was president of the Baptist Union, 1909-10. He is an able Aramaic scholar, and is applying this knowledge to the criticism of the Greek text of the Gospels in an interesting and instructive manner. In theology he is "Evangelical, with a frank outlook on all that is well grounded in Biblical criticism." He has written commentaries on Job and Ecclesiastes (Philadelphia, 1903) and Job and his Comforters (London, 1905).