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| honorific_suffix = [[Order of the Star of India|CSI]] | | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the Star of India|CSI]] | ||
| image = John.C.Marshman.jpg | | image = John.C.Marshman.jpg | ||
| caption = Portrait by [[Colesworthey Grant]] | | caption = Portrait by [[Colesworthey Grant]] (1859) | ||
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1794|08|18|df=y}} | | birth_date = {{Birth date|1794|08|18|df=y}} | ||
| birth_place = [[Bristol]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]] | | birth_place = [[Bristol]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]] | ||
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'''John Clark Marshman''' (18 August | '''John Clark Marshman''' (18 August 1794 – 8 July 1877) was an English journalist and historian. He was editor and publisher of the Calcutta-based ''Friend of India'', and was involved with several other Indian publications. | ||
==Early life== | ==Early life== | ||
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In 1837 the last of the [[Serampore Trio]], his father [[Joshua Marshman]] died. Following his death [[John Mack (principal)|John Mack]] and Marshman struggled to carry on the work of the college, spending all their earnings and Marshman's income from his private concerns, including those from the paper mill. After he published ''The Friend of India'', he stipulated that the proceeds should go to the college. It was reckoned that in all he contributed more than £30,000. | In 1837 the last of the [[Serampore Trio]], his father [[Joshua Marshman]] died. Following his death [[John Mack (principal)|John Mack]] and Marshman struggled to carry on the work of the college, spending all their earnings and Marshman's income from his private concerns, including those from the paper mill. After he published ''The Friend of India'', he stipulated that the proceeds should go to the college. It was reckoned that in all he contributed more than £30,000. | ||
As the struggle to maintain the college was getting more onerous each year to try and fund privately, Mack and Marshman decided to turn the | As the struggle to maintain the college was getting more onerous each year to try and fund privately, Mack and Marshman decided to turn the college over to the [[Baptist Missionary Society]]. The Society was unwilling to take over the burden fully, but did offer to support a [[Theology|theological]] [[professor]] on the college staff. | ||
Marshman later rather unwillingly accepted the position of Official Bengali Translator to the Government, and thereafter was abused almost daily in the native newspapers as "the hireling of the Government". His salary of £1,000 per annum was passed to the college. | Marshman later rather unwillingly accepted the position of Official Bengali Translator to the Government, and thereafter was abused almost daily in the native newspapers as "the hireling of the Government". His salary of £1,000 per annum was passed to the college. | ||
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==Bibliography== | ==Bibliography== | ||
*{{Cite DNB|no-icon=1|wstitle=Marshman, John Clark}} | *{{Cite DNB|no-icon=1|wstitle=Marshman, John Clark}} | ||
* | *{{cite book |author=Sunil Kumar Chatterjee |year=2001 |title=John Clark Marshman: (a trustworthy friend of India) |publisher=Mahamaya Sahitya Mandir |oclc=51228078}} | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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[[Category:1794 births]] | [[Category:1794 births]] | ||
[[Category:1877 deaths]] | [[Category:1877 deaths]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Indian journalists]] | ||
[[Category:Baptist missionaries in India]] | [[Category:Baptist missionaries in India]] | ||
[[Category:English Baptist missionaries]] | [[Category:English Baptist missionaries]] | ||
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[[Category:18th-century Baptists]] | [[Category:18th-century Baptists]] | ||
[[Category:British Indologists]] | [[Category:British Indologists]] | ||
[[Category:British people | [[Category:British people in colonial India]] | ||