Author: Marshall, Benjamin Arthur
Biography:
MARSHALL, Benjamin Arthur (1804-74: ancestry.co.uk)
According to Venn (ACAD), he was from Ireland, but no details of his family are given. Nor is there an explanation as to why he went to Cambridge at the relatively late age of twenty-five after marriage. He entered Queen’s College, Cambridge, in 1828 but the following year migrated to Peterhouse (matric. 1829, BA 1835). He failed to obtain the Chancellor’s Medal with his poem Byzantium (1830). (William Chapman Kinglake, q.v., won the prize.) He was ordained deacon in 1835 and priest in 1836. He then held an array of curacies: Great Budworth, Cheshire, 1835-8; St. Mark’s, Liverpool, 1839-46; St. Luke’s, Liverpool 1847-50; Tattenhall, Cheshire, 1850-53. He ended his clerical career as Vicar of St. Cuthbert’s, Carlisle, 1853-74. He died at the vicarage on 5 Mar. 1874. Prior to Cambridge, he married Harriet Hutchinson on 28 Sept. 1825, at Cheltenham. They went on to have four children. (The death of one child is recorded in a poem of 1827.) She died sometime after 1837 but it is not known when. He then married Sarah Malins on 21 July 1851 at Handsworth, near Birmingham. They had perhaps as many as eleven children. Many of the issue of this second marriage survived well into the twentieth century. His only other work, Hymnal for the Church and Home (1868), adds nothing to his reputation and by that date there were more comprehensive and knowledgeable collections being produced. (ancestry.co.uk 25 Apr. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 25 Apr. 2022; Liverpool Mercury 7 Oct. 1825; Liverpool Mail 2 Aug. 1851; Pall Mall Gazette 7 Mar. 1874) AA
Other Names:
- B. A. Marshall