Educated at Christ Church, Oxford (where he befriended George Canning and Cyril Jackson), he was tutor to the future lords Carlisle and Holland and was rector of Winterslow (1804) and canon of Salisbury (1825).

REFERENCES TO Matthew Marsh:

Sydney Smith to Lord Grey, 23 October 1818 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)