Robert Bullock Marsham

Robert Bullock Marsham, portrait by Henry Tanworth Wells

Robert Bullock Marsham (17 June 1786 – 27 December 1880) was an English academic, Warden of Merton College, Oxford for 54 years.

Marsham was the son of Jacob Marsham, Canon of Windsor (son of Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney) and his wife Amelia Frances Bullock (daughter of Joseph Bullock MP).[1]

He was educated at Eton College,[1] and entered Christ Church, Oxford in 1803, graduating B.A. 1807, M.A. 1814, D.C.L. 1826. He was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford 1812–1826, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1813. He became Dean of Merton College in 1824, and was Warden of Merton College from 1826 until his death on 27 December 1880, aged 94.[2]

  1. ^ a b Walford, Edward (1864). The County Families of the United Kingdom. p. 673. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  2. ^ Foster, Joseph. "Marsham, Robert (Bullock)" . Alumni Oxonienses  – via Wikisource.