Thomas Hassall was an Anglican clergyman and the first Australian candidate for ordination. Hassall opened the first Sunday School in Australia in 1813 in his father's house at Parramatta.
Portrait of Reverend Thomas Hassall, Australia, ca. 1866
Thomas Hassall, ca. 1818 - portrait a1528138
Samuel Marsden was an English-born priest of the Church of England in Australia and a prominent member of the Church Missionary Society. He played a leading role in bringing Christianity to New Zealand. Marsden was a prominent figure in early New South Wales and Australian history, partly through his ecclesiastical offices as the colony's senior Church of England cleric and as a pioneer of the Australian wool industry, but also for his employment of convicts for farming and his actions as a magistrate at Parramatta, both of which attracted contemporary criticism.
Marsden, 1833
St Matthew's Church, Windsor, New South Wales, consecrated by Marsden on 8 December 1822
Rev. Samuel Marsden, c.1809
Russell Clark's depiction of the sermon by Marsden, 1814