FARMER, Reverend George (1851-1925)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP64 |
Held at | : King's College London College Archives Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ › |
Full 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 & 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.
Finding aids:
Boxlist available in hard copy in the College Archives reading room.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred via the Department of Theology, King's College London, by the family of the Rev Farmer.
Allied Materials
Related material:
National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Sources: Crockford's Clerical Dictionary; British Library OPAC. Compiled by Robert Baxter.
Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions:
Aug 2000
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