Janus: Richard Farmer: Poetry

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.3869	Historia Arabum, extracts from part I
MS Add.3870	Apollodorus Atheniensis, Bibliotheca (MS copy in Latin translated by Benedictus Aegius Spoletinus) and extracts from Meidanii Proverbia Arabica, ed. H. A. Schultens
MS Add.3871	Journal of a Voyage to the Coast of Guinea
MS Add.3872	Discourse of ecclesiastical offices
MS Add.3873	Tripos verses
MS Add.3874-3921	Thomas Blore Papers
MS Add.39	Collection of speeches made in Parliament during November 1640
MS Add.3922-3956	Papers of Edward Blore
MS Add.3957	Terrier for Impington, Cambridgeshire
MS Add.3958-4007	The Portsmouth Collection
MS Add.40	Miscellaneous collection of letters and other items
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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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