the late governor of the Cape... However, deriving no very great advantage from these connexions, he accepted the curacy of Hampton.'

Dr W. S. Powell had been intimate, when at Freshwater, with Fisher's family,' and had urged him to stand for a fellowship at St 5 John's. Fisher accordingly (see below, Cole's account of Chevallier) supported Powell's friend Chevallier as a candidate for the mastership. His conduct in this business led bp. Hurd to recommend him in 1780 as tutor to prince Edward, father of queen Victoria, before he was sent to Göttingen. Fisher removed to Windsor and was made king's 10 chaplain and deputy clerk of the closet. He won the confidence of his pupil and of the king.

In 1783 he became F.S.A. In 1785, on prince Edward's going to Germany to finish his education, he went to Italy for his health. Mrs Piozzi writes 3 Aug. 1813 (Journ. and Corresp. of T. S. Whalley 15 II. 367), on hearing of the death of Randolph, bp. of London; 'Now let us see if Fisher stands well with his young princess, whose recommendation-if she enforces it the way we were talking of-must, I should think, be very powerful. He was a charming creature when we knew him abroad, and called him the King's Fisher.'

In 1786 he was recalled from Naples and married 5 or 6 Sept. 1787 Dorothea only daughter of Jo. Freston Scrivenor esq. of Sibton abbey Suffolk (Gent. Mag. 1787, 836b); by whom he had one son and two daughters.

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It speaks well for his liberality of thought that we find his name, 25 when king's chaplain, among the subscribers to Jo. Jebb's Works.

In 1803 he was appointed tutor to the princess Charlotte. See letters from him on Hannah More's famous Hints towards the education of a princess, 1805, in Roberts' Life and Correspondence of H. M., ed. 2, III. 222, 223; and the account of the difficulties which he 30 had to overcome in Miss C. Knight's Autobiography. Of this responsible charge he acquitted himself with exemplary propriety and credit' (Oliver).

'After his advancement to the episcopal bench, he made it a rule to appropriate a considerable portion of the revenues of each diocese 35 to charitable uses. One proof of his uncommon disinterestedness appeared in his declining to renew the lease of the best manor belonging to the.. see of Salisbury, by which extraordinary sacrifice the sum of £30,000 falls into the hands of.. bp. Burgess. . . . Dr. Fisher left his bishoprick as he came to it.' 40

In 1804 he became v. p. of the Bible Society.

He died 8 May 1825 at his house in Semour Str. London, and was buried on the 16th in St. George's chapel Windsor.

By letters of administration granted to his widow 'it appears, that his personal property amounted to no more than £20,000.'

"A portrait of his lordship, as chancellor of the Garter, adorns the great room in Salisbury palace.* (Cassan's Bishops of Salisbury II. 361-366: Ann. Biogr. 1826, 219-231; 1835, 414b; Ann. Reg. for

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Appointed canon of Windsor by patent dated 25 Febr. 1786 (Hardy's Le Neve III. 412); he vacated the canonry 1803 (ibid. 413) when he was consecrated bp. of Exeter 17 July 1803 at Lambeth (ibid. 1. 383; Stubbs; Ra. Churton preached the consecration sermon, Nichols' Lit. Anecd. IX. 737); prebendary and archdeacon of Exeter, 21 July 1803 (Hardy ibid. 397, 432); nominated to the see of Salisbury 25 May 1807 (Hardy 11. 611).

Sam. Parr wrote of him (Memoirs, by Jo. Johnstone, 749):
'Unsoil'd by Courts, and unseduc'd by zeal,

Fisher endangers not the public weal.'

His only publications are:

A charge to the clergy of his diocese at his primary visitation in 1804 and 1805. 1805. 4to. In this he opposes the Roman Catholic claims and vindicates the articles from the imputation of Calvinism. A sermon preached at St Paul's at the yearly meeting of the children educated in the charity schools of London and Westminster. 1806. 4to. Anniversary sermons, S. P. C. K. 1806; S. P. G. 1809.

A sermon preached before the lords. . at Westminster Abbey, on the fast day [25 Febr.] 1807. 4to. In this he drew attention to the want of churches in London. Owing to the pressure of the war, the government could do nothing at the time. 'He had the pleasure however to see his ideas, at a subsequent period, taken up actively and on an extensive scale, both by parliament and by the people.'

A sermon at the consecration of St James' church Guernsey. Printed there 1818 (Ann. Biogr. 1826, 226–228; Biogr. Dict. of living authors, 1816, 116).

HENRY RYDER, bp. of Gloucester and Coventry and Lichfield.
Consecrated 1815.

Third son of Nath. first ld. Harrowby and Elizabeth daughter of bp. Terrick. Born at Streatham Surr., educated at Harrow, adm. fell. comm. 28 May 1795, æt. 18, under Wood. His elder brothers Dudley and Richard had already graduated as members of St John's. Hon. M.A. 1798, D.D. 1813.

Ordained to the curacy of Sandon in 1800; rector of Lutterworth 1802, vic. Claybrook 1806. At this time he 'read attentively the writings of the early fathers; studied critically, with the help of approved commentators, the sacred text; and took great pains with the preparation of his sermons.'

About 1811 he attached himself to the evangelical school, which still lay under a reproach, and he is called the affectionate brother' of a leader of that school, Tho. Robinson of Leicester (Vaughan's Life of T. R., 1815, 186). In this year he presided at the annual meeting of the Leicester auxiliary Bible society... It was at this period of his life.. he commenced daily family prayer, and the

reading of the scriptures morning and evening... Beside a cottage lecture at Claybrook, he held a weekly lecture on the premises of a large manufactory at Lutterworth.'

Mr Yate having worked for more than two years under bp. Ryder as curate of Chetwynd co. Salop, bears witness to his courtesy, liber- 5 ality and zeal. 'He was in a word, a truly Christian prelate and sincerely beloved by all his clergy. His acts of charity were truly munificent, perhaps too much so, considering his large family; but he said that he never knew how to refuse in a good cause, when called upon as a Christian bishop. Obloquy sometimes fell upon him from 10 persons of opposite religious views; but in all, who knew him, he seldom failed to inspire feelings of most affectionate respect and admiration.' See Harford's Memoir of R. C. Whalley, 1846, xxxiv; and Whalley's letter (pp. 74, 75) 1 Oct. 1814: 'He is a most upright man with God. He has no reserves or shiftings about him at all. Simple, 15 humble, and direct in his proceedings, he really adorns his station, and I have no doubt will be the means of much good in it. He is a very laborer for his master.'

He married in 1802 Sophia daughter of Tho. March Phillips esq., who survived him, by whom he had ten sons and three daughters 20 Ann. Biogr. 1837, 98; 1818, 383).

He was the last bishop of Coventry and Lichfield; the archdeaconry of Coventry being attached to Worcester diocese by order in council 22 Dec. 1836 (Hardy's Le Neve 1. 538).

At a public meeting in S. Philip's vestry Birmingham 14 Apr. 1836 25 it was resolved to erect a monument to the bp. in Lichfield cathedral, and to build a church at Gosta Green, near Birmingham, to be called Bishop Ryder's church. Both these resolutions were carried into effect (Ann. Biogr. 1837, 99).

Sam. Parr wrote of him (Memoirs by John Johnstone, 749):

'True piety in Ryder I admit.'

His only publications were sermons and charges. Anniversary Sermons, S. P. G. 1819; S. P. C. K. 1821.

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Prebendary of Windsor by patent dated 19 Mar. 1808; his successor was appointed 4 Jan. 1813 (Hardy's Le Neve, III. 413); dean of Wells 35 16 Dec. 1812, his successor nominated' 6 Sept. 1831 (ibid. 1. 155); prebendary of Westminster by patent dated 14 Sept. 1831: this prebend he held to his death (ibid. III. 369, 370); consecrated bp. of Gloucester at Lambeth 30 July 1815 (ibid. 1. 442; Stubbs); confirmed bp. of Coventry and Lichfield 10 Mar. 1824 (ibid. 559). He 40 died 31 March 1836 (Christ. Remembr. XVIII. 314) at Hastings and was buried there.

For his family see the Peerage, and Genealogy of the British peerage, under Harrowby.

See Public Characters, 1823, II. 230; Christ. Remembr. 1. 191 b 45 (his S.P.G. sermon, 1819); v. 41 seq.; Quart. Theol. Rev. I. 525 seq.; Jo. Townsend's Life, 1829, 219; Nichols' Leicestersh. IV. 263; Bodl. Catal.; Darling; Biogr. Dict. of living authors, 1816, 303, 446; Christ.

Observer, passim; Carus, Life of Simeon, c. 15, p. 372, c. 17, c. 18, p. 427; Lives of Hannah More and Wilberforce.

Herbert Marsh, bp. of Llandaff and Peterborough, consecrated

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See Gent. Mag. July 1839, pp. 86—88; Ann. Reg. 1839, p. 337; Living Authors (1798) II. 23; do. 1816 (Upcott's) pp. 222, 223, 441 ; Public Characters (1823) III. 128; The Georgian Era (Lond. 1832)

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Son of Ri. Marsh M. A. vicar of Faversham and Elizabeth his wife, born at Faversham 10 Dec. 1757, baptized 3 Jan. 1758 (Notes and Qu., 3 ser., X. 87; Gent. Mag. N.S. XII. 330), entered pensioner from Canterbury school under Ferris and Pearce 29 Dec. 1774. His master at Canterbury was Osmund Beauvoir, 'one of the first classical scholars of his day' (Sir E. Brydges in Nichols' Lit. Anecd., IX. 810; Autobiogr. 1. 68). He had been before at Faversham school. B.A. 1779, 2nd wrangler and 2nd Smith's prizeman; members' prizeman in 1780 and 1781; M.A. 1782; B.D. 1792; D.D. by mandate 1808.

On 1 July 1807 he was married at Harwich, by special licence, to Miss Marianne Emilie Charlotte Lecarriere, daughter of the late John L. esq., merchant at Leipzig (Gent. Mag. 1807, p. 681 a).

On 23 Nov. 1807, the court of King's Bench was moved to award a mandamus to the bp. of Ely, visitor, to hear and decide upon the claim of Wm. Wood to the sinecure rectory of Aberdaron; but the application was refused, the bp. having pronounced in favour of Herb. Marsh (Cooper's Ann. IV. 489 from Cambr. Chron. 28 Nov. 1807).

Elected Margaret professor in 1807 (Hardy's Le Neve III. 655), an appointment which he retained to his death; consecrated bp. Llandaff 25 Aug. 1816, confirmed bp. of Peterborough 28 Apr. 1819 (ibid. II. 256, 538). He died 1 May 1839.

He was 'most prompt and exact in the dispatch of business. As a man, he was liberal in all his views, of great benevolence, and remarkable for his friendliness of disposition' (Gent. Mag. July 1839).

He was buried in that part of his cathedral called the new building (ibid.).

His widow, a German lady, Marianne Emilie Charlotte, died 13 Oct. 1844, in the minster precincts Peterborough, æt. 70 (Camb. Chron. 19 Oct. 1844).

His father Ri. Marsh was of C. C. C. C. B.A. 1731, M.A. 1756. His brother, R. Marsh esq., died 1 July 1847, at St. Stephen's, Canterbury (Cambr. Chron. 17 July 1847).

His eldest son Herb. Chas. Marsh of St John's, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, rector of Barnack 1832 (ibid. 10 Aug. 1832), was collated to the 3rd stall of Peterborough cathedral 6 Aug. 1833 (Hardy's Le Neve II. 547). He was declared of unsound mind by a jury 11 June 1850 (Cambr. Chron. 15 June 1850), and died 4 Sept. 1851, æt. 43 (ibid. 13 Sept. 1851).

His then youngest son, Ri. Jo., died 23 Feb. 1812 (ibid. 28 Feb. 1812) having been born 23 Febr. 1811 (ibid. 20 Dec. 1811).

His son Geo. Henry was of St John's, 2nd classic 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1847. Some time a barrister; presented to the college rectory of Great Snoring with Thursford in 1851 (ibid. 4 Nov. 1851).

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'In 1784, at the general election, he was a zealous supporter of Mr Pitt, then a candidate for the university. In 1785 he went abroad, and after travelling through various parts of the continent, finally settled at Leipzig in 1786, where he became a member of the university..... In 1792...he returned to Cambridge to take his B.D. degree... He re- 10 turned to Leipzig in 1793' (C. YATE).

Proceedings against Wm. Frend, Cambr. 1793, xlvii.: 'The ill health alone of Mr Marsh prevented him from being of the number [of the friends who appeared with Frend in court and advised him]: but the step, taken by him in an early stage of the business, though 15 unauthorised by Mr Frend, proved the sincerity of that friendship, which had long been cemented between them.'

Marsh took the advertisement of Frend's pamphlets to the Cambridge Chronicle, and was summoned as a witness by Dr Tho. Kipling although he had frequently expostulated with the promoter on the 20 cruelty of forcing him to attend;' however on his plea 'Mr Frend is a near relation, a man with whom I have been educated from my childhood, and of course a confidential friend' (ibid. 65—67, 205, 11 May 1793), he was allowed to withdraw, sore against Kipling's will. Marsh had attempted to bring about a compromise, ibid. 163, 25 165-167; in the note 166, 167 is part of a manly letter of Marsh's to Kipling: 'lifting up your arm with a menace, which (excuse me, Sir, the expression) at present appears to me ridiculous, you solemnly and violently declared, that you would not suffer such proceedings... Mr Frend is a man of too much honour, and too much courage, to 30 stoop to such a baseness.'

The proceedings against Frend from the first seem to have been violent and unconstitutional; even Wm. Otter, afterwards bp., protested against his 'amotion' from Jesus college. The attempt to compel Marsh to give evidence against his friend and relation was 35 received by a crowded gallery with the strongest marks of disapprobation.' He acted prudently in residing at Leipzig; 'for such was the rancour of Frend's prosecutors, that they calumniated every person who was in any manner connected with him; and Mr Marsh, who was considered as the successor of Professor Mainwaring, would 40 have had no chance of obtaining that lucrative Professorship, which was in the gift of Doctors and Bachelors of Divinity only.' S. T. Coleridge's zeal on Frend's behalf is well known (Gunning's Reminiscences, 1855, I. 255–285).

Beloe's Sexagenarian, 1. c. 21 p. 131 seq.: 'The progress to his 45 degree was marked by the general prediction, that he would attain the highest honours. In this interval, and in the course of the