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WILBERFORCE. MARSDEN.
the ministry,[1] he adopted it in zeal for his Master's cause,
and the manner in which he served that Master won the
enduring friendship of Wilberforce, who was wont to
describe Samuel Marsden as a moral hero. His influence
in the community was the more marked because he was
not as Johnson was described by Wilberforce—"very little acquainted with the ways of the world."
- ↑ He was born in 1764 at Farsley, near Leeds; was educated at the Hull Grammar School; went to Cambridge; left Magdalen College in 1792; was ordained by Royal Mandate and appointed chaplain to New South Wales in 1793, and arrived there in 1794. A monument raised in memory of him was placed in Farsley church in 1866.
