Richard Farmer

Richard Farmer (1735-1797) was an eminent English scholar, born at Leicester. He distinguished himself at Cambridge, where he became classical tutor of his college, and in the end master (1775). Three years later he was appointed chief-librarian to the university, and afterwards was successively canon of Lichfield, Canterbury, and St. Paul's. He wrote an erudite essay on "The Learning of Shakespeare".

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