Francis Marsh

Francis Marsh (23 October 1626 – 16 November 1693) was Archbishop of Dublin from 1682 to 1693.^[1]

He was admitted to Emmanuel College, Cambridge in April 1642 as the son of Henry Marsh esq. of Edgeworth, Gloucestershire.^[2]He had previously been Dean of Connor (1660–1661), Dean of Armagh (1661–1667), Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe and Kilmore and Ardagh. He married Mary, the daughter of Bishop Jeremy Taylor.^[3] Their son Jeremiah Marsh was the Dean of Kilmore.^[4]From his father-in-law, Jeremy Taylor, he inherited a silver watch, said to have been a gift from Charles I. This watch remained in the family of his great-grandson, Francis Marsh, barrister-at-law.^[5]

References

1. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 350–351. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
2. "ACAD Francis Marsh". Retrieved 9 August 2023.
3. "Belfast Cathedral web site". Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 30 April 2011.
4. Cumberland, Richard; Maxwell, John (1727). A Treatise of the Laws of Nature. R. Phillips.
5. Burke's Peerage, 1857, p.664: Sir Henry Marsh, Baronet