Person:Richard Farmer (12)
Richard Farmer
b.4 May 1735
d.8 Sep 1797 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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m. 4 Jan 1732/33
  1. Mary Farmer
  2. Joseph Farmer
  3. Sarah Farmer
  4. Richard Farmer1735 - 1797
  5. John Farmer1739 -
  6. Hannah Farmer1741 - 1811
  7. Thomas Farmer1744 - 1824
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Name[1] Richard Farmer
Gender Male
Birth[1] 4 May 1735
Christening[2] 6 May 1735 Leicestershire
Death[1][2] 8 Sep 1797 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Reference Number Q7325613 (Wikidata)


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Richard Farmer FRS FSA (1735–1797) was a Shakespearean scholar and Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is known for his Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare (1767), in which he maintained that Shakespeare's knowledge of the classics was through translations, the errors of which he reproduced.

The Master of Emanuel College in Cambridge, and the commentator on Shakspeare.

He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and compiled notes on his own ancestry, which were ultimately published in Nichols' Leicester. There is an entry on Richard in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and a book length biolgraphy published in 1992. (Taylor)

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 John Farmer. Genealogical Memoir of the Family by the Name of Farmer who Settled at Billerica, Mass.. (Published 1828 by Hingham, Farmer and Brown......Printers)
    p. 6.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Taylor, Nathaniel Lane. Genealogist John Farmer Discovers His Ancestry. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (2007)
    161:221, July 2007.
  3.   Richard Farmer, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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