Volume 1

The Farington diary / edited by James Greig.

  • Joseph Farington
Date:
[1922?-1928]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Farington diary / edited by James Greig. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    what I had observed of Sir William I was of opinion that He was a humane man. December 23.—Lord Bristol, invited Soane from Rome to Ireland & remitted him £30 for his expences. Soane went, but could not agree with that capricious character. He left him & returned to England, where He found the late Lord Camelford, who He had known in Rome. To him He stated his disappointment and Lord C. recommended him to Mr. Pitt, &c. December 24.—On Monday last [the 22nd] the Principal (Bishop of Chester) and Fellows of Brazen-nose-College [sic] unanimously agreed to raise the livings belonging to that College which are under £300 a year.—Such livings as are in London are to be raised to £350 a year, and such livings as are in the country to £300 a year. The deficiencies to be made up from the Domus accumulation rising from the estates be¬ longing to the College. A Senior Fellowship of Brazen-nose is worth on an average about £200 a year. A Junior Fellowship not above -£40 a year. Brazen-nose College is the best endowed College in the Univer¬ sity of Oxford. They are possessed of an acknowledgment in the handwriting of Charles the first of his having reed, a Sum of money besides Plate from that College. Praise from America The Boston Transcript, one of America’s leading newspapers, in a generous appreciation of Farington’s Diary on January 28, says : “ The centenary of Farington’s death, a few days ago, gives us occasion for con¬ gratulating the Morning Post on having secured these diaries, and it is to be hoped that in due course they will find their way into the national possession, and possibly the archives of the British Museum.”