Anglican chaplain who used his extensive landholdings to promote the sheep industry but is equally remembered for his extreme severity as a magistrate. On 1 July 2019 Samuel Marsden Collegiate School Trust Board announced it had made the decision to close Marsden School Whitby at the end of the 2019 school year.[4]. The school is named after the Anglican Missionary Samuel Marsden. He concentrated on the development of strong heavy-framed sheep such as the Suffolk sheep breed, which had a more immediate value in the colony than the fine-fleeced Spanish merinos imported by John Macarthur. Its exam results rank consistently in the top schools in New Zealand.

Hongi Hika returned with them, bringing a large number of firearms from Australia for his warriors.
Marsden, Samuel Marsden, Samuel. Four years later more than 4000 lbs (1814 kg) of his wool was sold in England.

Holt himself was released but witnessed the fate of others. He learnt Māori, beginning an English-Māori translation sheet of common words and expressions. [11] They arrived in Sydney on 17 or 27 February 1810. Samuel Marsden was born on 25th June 1765 in Farsley, Yorkshire, England.

Marsden has a vibrant and active Parents' Association that runs various events at Marsden each year. [15], In June 1813, Marsden wrote to the Secretary of the CMS seeking £500 per annum to form an Auxiliary CMS Society in New South Wales, with a view of assisting engaging in missionary work among the Māori people in New Zealand. [34] Marsden later went to some trouble talking to all Australian printers to prevent Kendall from publishing a Māori grammar book, apparently largely out of spite. [31] Hongi Hika met George IV, who gifted him a suit of armour; he also obtained further muskets when passing through Sydney on his return to New Zealand. Marsden was given grants of land by the colonial government and bought more of his own, which were worked with convict labour, a common practice in Australia at the time. The school was an early adopter of technology and won the New Zealand Computer Institutes Award for Excellence in the use of IT in Schools: Secondary and Primary in 2000. [21][25] The mission finally closed in the 1850s.[26]. Holt considered that he had surrendered back in Ireland under terms of free exile. There he befriended the Maori chief Ruatara who had gone to Britain in the whaling ship Santa Anna and been stranded there. Samuel Marsden Collegiate School is located in the Wellington suburb of Karori in New Zealand. [37], The Australian poet Kenneth Slessor wrote a satirical poem criticising the parson, Vesper-Song of the Reverend Samuel Marsden.[38]. The sale of Marsden Whitby to Fiso Investment Group Ltd was finalised on 10 December 2019.[4]. Episode 11 - Ranking the Serie A Signings and Barcelona Talk, 306 - Gay Life in the Tasmanian Colony (live in Sydney). Samuel Marsden (25 June 1765 – 12 May 1838) was an English-born priest of the Church of England in Australia and a prominent member of the Church Missionary Society, believed to have introduced Christianity to New Zealand. The following month William Buller, the Bishop of Exeter, ordained him as a priest.[5]. Private composite girls school, years 1-13 school, Learn how and when to remove this template message, People educated at Samuel Marsden Collegiate School, "Samuel Marsden Collegiate School .::. Downie reported that while at the Bay of Islands whalers were in the practice of trading muskets and ammunition for pork and potatoes. [If Catholicism in Australia] were tolerated they would assemble together from every Quarter, not so much from a desire of celebrating Mass, as to recite the Miseries and Injustice of their Banishment, the Hardships they suffer, and to enflame one another's minds with some wild Scheme of Revenge. The best API to search all podcasts and episodes. On 9 August 2019 Fiso Group Ltd announced plans to acquire the school and rename it Whitby Collegiate with plans to start operating formally from the start of the school year in 2020.

Marsden met Māori rangatira (chiefs) from the Ngāpuhi iwi (tribe), who controlled the region around the Bay of Islands, including the chief Ruatara who had lived with him in Australia, and a junior war leader, Hongi Hika, who had helped pioneer the introduction of the musket to Māori warfare in the previous decade. [21][22] The service from the Church of England Book of Common Prayer was read in English but it is likely that, having learnt the language from Ruatara, Marsden preached his sermon in the Māori language.