Richard Farmer

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Richard Farmer [1]

An eminent scholar, born at Leicester; distinguished himself at Cambridge, where he became classical tutor of his college, and in the end master; three years later he was appointed chief-librarian to the university, and afterwards was successively canon of Lichfield, Canterbury, and St. Paul's; wrote an erudite essay on "The Learning of Shakespeare" (1735-1797).

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