Farmer, Richard, an eminent scholar, born at Leicester; 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; wrote an erudite essay on “The Learning of Shakespeare” (1735‒1797).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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