MARSH MAN

John Clark (eld. son of Joshua Marsh man, orientalist and mi ionary 1768–1837). b. Aug. 1794; went with his father to Serampur near Calcutta 1800; directed his father’s religious undertakings from 1812; started the first paper mill in India; founded with his father the first newspaper in Bengali, the Sumachar Durpun 31 May 1818, also the first English weekly paper The Friend of India 1821; spent £30,000 on the Serampur college for the education of natives; official Bengali translator to the government, resigned and returned to England 1852; chairman of committee of audit of East India railway; C.S.I. 8 Dec. 1868; contested Ipswich 1857, Harwich 1859 and Marylebone 1861; author of The history of India 1842, 5 ed. 1860; Marsh man’s Guide to the civil law of the presidency of Fort William, translated into Urdu by J. J. Moore 2 vols. 1845–6, 2 ed. 1848; The life and times of Carey, Marsh man and Ward, embracing the history of the Serampore mi ion 2 vols. 1859; The history of India from the earliest period to the close of Lord Dalhousie’s administration 3 vols. 1863–7, 2 ed. 1867. d. 2 Redcliffe sq. Kensington, London 8 July 1877.