The British Musical Biography

[E] Marsh, Narcissus, amateur musiciaii
and archbishop, was born in Wiltshire in 1638.
In 1703 he was consecrated Archbishop of
Armagh. He died at Dublin in 1713. Now
best remembered as founder of Marsh's
Library, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, 1707.
He wrote an " Essay touching the sympathy
between lute or viol strings," 1677, published
in Plot's Natural History of Oxfordshire,
and an Introductory essay to chc doctrine of
sounds, 1683, etc.

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