IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP64
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: FARMER, Reverend George (1851-1925)
Date(s): 1881-1923
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 9 boxes
Name of creator(s): Farmer | George | 1851-1925 | Reverend | Anglican clergyman
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1851; student of King's College London (Jelf Prize, 1880, Wordsworth Prize, 1881; Associate of King's College, 1881); ordained deacon, 1881, and priest, 1882; Curate of St Michael and All Angels, Sydenham, 1881-1886; Curate of St Margaret's next Rochester, 1886-1891; Vicar of Hartlip, 1891-1904; licentiate preacher, Archdiocese of Canterbury, 1904; Fellow of King's College, 1921; died 1925.
Publications: A Comparison of the Authorised and Revised Versions of the first chapter of the Revelation (Privately printed, 1910).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, mainly notebooks of Farmer, 1881-1923, mainly comprising notes by Farmer on books of the Bible, including notebooks entitled 'Conjectural emendation in the New Testament', 'Parallels between the Revelation and other Johannine books'; notes for sermons by Farmer, 1891-1908, including sermons by Farmer entitled 'The Patriarchate and Exarchate', 'The Psalter as a Christian manual', and outlines for sermons and papers on the Christian priesthood, ecclesiastical advertising, Christian unity, and missionary problems; other notes and papers , including A manual of confirmation for educated adults by Farmer, and printed sermons by the Very Reverend John Plumptre, Dean of Gloucester, and the Reverend George Croly, 1844-1874.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Unsorted.
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Boxlist available in hard copy in the College Archives reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred via the Department of Theology, King's College London, by the family of the Rev Farmer.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Sources: Crockford's Clerical Dictionary; British Library OPAC. Compiled by Robert Baxter.
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2000