Janus: Richard Farmer: Poetry

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.4485	Poems on the parables
MS Add.4486	Localisation and Dating of Manuscripts
MS Add.4487	Seventeenth-Century Sermons
MS Add.4488	R.P. Reinal: Treatise on Natural Philosophy
MS Add.4492	Henry Law: vindication of his conduct in Ely and Littleport Riots, 1816.
MS Add.4494	Richard Farmer: Poetry
MS Add.4495, 4496, 5121	Albrecht W.J. Wachler: notes on Freidrich Heinrich Wilhelm Gesenius
MS Add.4497	Correspondence relating to the F. W. Maitland Memorial Fund
MS Add.4498	William Wright: Testimonials
MS Add.4499	Kings Offices and Fees
MS Add.4501-4504, 4509, 4510	Edward Byles Cowell: Papers
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Richard Farmer: Poetry

Title	Richard Farmer: Poetry
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.4494
Creator	Farmer, Richard, 1735-1797
Covering Dates	1752
Extent and Medium	1 volume
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

Richard Farmer (1735-1797) was born in Leicester on 28 August 1735. He attended the free grammar school at Leicester, before entering Emmanuel College, Cambridge (B.A., 1757; M.A., 1760; B.D., 1767; D.D., 1775), where he became a tutor in 1760. He was appointed master of Emmanuel in 1775, and was vice-chancellor of the university, 1775-1776 and 1787-1788. Farmer was made prebendary and chancellor of Lichfield in 1780, and prebendary of Canterbury, 1782, and of St Paul's, 1788. He died at Emmanuel College lodge on 8 September 1797.

'Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy', with various poems and other juvenilia.

Purchased 1910.

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Poetry

Farmer, Richard (1735-1797) literary scholar and college head

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