Samuel Marsden

Samuel Edward Marsden (1 February 183215 October 1912) was an Anglican bishop. He was the first Anglican Bishop of Bathurst.

Marsden was born into a clerical family in Sydney, New South Wales: his grandfather was the Rev. Samuel Marsden, formerly senior chaplain at Parramatta. He came to England as a boy and was educated in private school in Gloucestershire and at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1855. Ordained in 1855, his first positions were curacies within the Diocese of Hereford at St Peter's Church, Hereford from 1855 to 1858, and in Diocese of Lichfield at Lilleshall, Shropshire from 1858 to 1861. due to ill-health arising from travel in the hot climate within his extensive diocese. by 1900 (after the re-erection of the Diocese of Bristol in 1897), he was Assistant Bishop of both dioceses (of Gloucester and of Bristol).