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Samuel Marsden (25 June 1765 – 12 May 1838) was an English-born priest of the Church of England in Australia and a prominent member of the Church Missionary Society. He played a leading role in bringing Christianity to New Zealand.
Samuel Marsden (1765-1838), chaplain, missionary and farmer, was born on 24 June 1765 at Farsley, Yorkshire, England, the son of Thomas Marsden, a blacksmith. He attended the village school, was then apprenticed to his father and grew up in an area and amongst a class much influenced by the Methodist religious revival.
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Samuel Marsden, Principal Chaplain of New South Wales, and as his gravestone reminds us, ‘Minister of St. Johns [ sic] Church Parramatta for nearly half a century,’ was a leading figure in the life and politics of the colony from his arrival in 1793 to his death in 1838. [1]
8 de nov. de 2017 · Biography. Samuel Marsden. The Reverend Samuel Marsden, Chaplain to New South Wales (1765-1838), was the driving force behind the establishment of Anglican mission stations in New Zealand in the early 19th century. Born in England and based in New South Wales, Marsden was a member of the Church Missionary Society (CMS).
Page 1: Biography. Samuel Marsden. Marsden, Samuel. 1765–1838. Chaplain, magistrate, agriculturalist, missionary. This biography, written by G. S. Parsonson, was first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography in 1990. It was updated in May, 2013.
Marsden was a prominent, influential and at times controversial public figure in New South Wales, serving as a magistrate from 1795, superintendent of government affairs and Chaplain of New South Wales from 1800.
A key figure in the establishment of the first Christian mission in New Zealand was Samuel Marsden. During his time in Australia as chaplain to the penal colony, he met many visiting Maori and developed a close association with the Rangihoua chief Ruatara.
