John Marsh
Commissioner, Comptroller and Chairman of the Victualling Board
1746 - 1823
Born: 1746 and died 3 December
1823 aged 77.
Son of: Milbourne
Marsh.1709?-1778?
Brother of:
1. Maj
Francis Millbourne Marsh (?-1782).
2. Eliza Crisp
(nee Marsh) who married James Crisp Esq (????-1779)
Married: circa 1786 Lucy
Gosling (1759?-1845).
John and lucy had issue:
1. John
Milbourne Marsh (1787-1826).
2. George
Augustus Eliott Marsh MA (1790-1867) who married Julia Murdock (1792?-1854).
3. Lady Eliza Downman (1799-18??) who
married Sir Thomas Downman.
John Marsh: An Overview
We know about John from the following sources:
1. "History of the Ancient Family of Marsh" by Joseph J.
Green, Archivist and Genealogist, 1903, revised to date by Wm. Ernest
Marsh, of Marston, Bromley, Kent, 1912.
2. Various manuscripts in the Greenwich Naval Museum and the British library.
3. The diary of his uncle George Marsh (1722-1800).
4. His bookplate.
Documents in the British Library include:
1. Marsh (John) . Letters, as Commissioner of the Navy Victualling
Office, to Lord Nelson 1799 - 1801. Add. 34933 ff. 183, 281 Add.
34934 ff. 3, 114, 190, 203
2. Marsh (John) . of the Victualling Office Letter to J. Borlinder
signed by, 1806 Add. 71591 f. 93
3. Marsh (John) . Consul at Malaga Letters to Lord Grantham
1771-1779. Add. 24167 ff. 6, 14, 48, 69, 245 Add. 24168 passim- 24173
4. Marsh (John) . Solicitor Letter 1767. Add. 19040 f. 112
5. Marsh (John) . of Upton, in Hawkesbury Grants in Hawkesbury 1676,
1709. Add. 38579 ff. 22 b, 44 b
Documents in the Greenwich Naval Museum include:
1. Autobiographical account by John Marsh starting in 1768 when
Consul at Malagar through to Commissioner of Transport and
Victualling Boards up to 1808. Concerned mainly with his applications
for a pension and contains copies and original letters including
those from Richard Burke, Secretary to the Duke of Portland, 1783;
George Augustus Eliott, Lord Heathfield, 1779 &
1790. BGR/35 SWW.
2. In letter from John Marsh (Victualling Office),
1805. MID/1/117 SWW.
"History of the Ancient Family of Marsh" notes the following:
John Marsh, Commissioner, Comptroller and Chairman of the Victualling
Board or Office, superintending the Cash Department, Somerset
Place. He was apparently appointed 12 March 1783, Consul in
Spain at Malaga. Lucy Marsh (nee Gosling) died at Bangor
Rectory 26 February 1845 aged 86.
A portrait of Lucy Marsh nee Gosling was sold at Sothebys 6 March 2008. PROVENANCE It was described with the provenance by descent to the sitter's son, the Rev. Augustus Marsh; Thence by descent to Colonel H.E. Marsh, his grandson.
It should be noted that John's Uncle George Marsh was previously a Commissioner of the Navy and Chairman of the Victualling Board.
The following bookplate is almost definately John's. It is very similar in appearance to the bookplates of his uncle George Marsh and cousin Arthur Cuthbert Marsh.
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