works, and of the impossibility of falling from grace, as giving a license to immoral living", which brought him into conflict with the Evangelicals, such as Charles Simeon and Isaac Milner. In 1807 he resigned his fellowship at St John's on being elected as the Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at Cambridge and began presenting lectures there on Higher Criticism. He was the first person in the theological school there to give his lectures in English rather than the traditional Latin. In 1808 he was awarded the Oxford degree of Doctor of Divinity, before in 1816 he was appointed the bishop of Llandaff in Glamorgan, where he succeeded Bishop Richard Watson. Watson was more tolerant than Marsh toward seceding Methodist clergy. Marsh was anti-methodist and "made life difficult for any of his clergy with methodist tendencies." In 1819 he was translated to Peterborough. As a bishop, Marsh was controversial for preaching against the Evangelicals and for refusing to license clergy with Calvinist beliefs (for which he incurred the ire of Sydney Smith). He was a rigorous proponent of strict ecclesiastical conformity. Writings Herbert Marsh, A Dissertation on the Origin and Composition of the Three First Canonical Gospels (F & C Rivington, London ; C. Deighton, Cambridge, 1801). Herbert Marsh, Letters to the Anonymous Author of Remarks on Michaelis and his Commentator, relating specifically to the Dissertation on the Origin and Composition of our Three First Canonical Gospels (F & C Rivington, London 1802). Herbert Marsh, An Illustration of the Hypothesis proposed in the Dissertation on the Origin and Composition of our Three First Canonical Gospels, with a Preface and an Appendix, the whole being a Rejoinder to the anonymous author of the Remarks on Michaelis and his Commentator (F & C Rivington, London; J. Deighton, Cambridge, 1803). References External links Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury 1757 births 1839 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Bishops of Llandaff English theologians Synoptic problem Bishops of Peterborough Second Wranglers Fellows of the Royal Society People educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Faversham 19th-century Church of England bishops 19th-century Welsh Anglican bishops