Barnard, Edward William
Barnard, Edward William
Name ID: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5345890
Born: 1791
Died: 1828
Faith: Anglican
Note: Edward William Barnard was a divine, poet and scholar. Nephew of fellow abolitionist,
the Archdeacon Francis Wrangham. 'He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, owing
to his distaste for mathematics. In 1817 he published anonymously, 'Poems, founded
upon the Poems of Meleager,' which were re-edited in 1818 under the title of 'Trifles,
imitative of the Chaster Style of Meleager.' The latter volume was dedicated to Thomas
Moore, who tells us in his journal that he had the manuscript to look over, and describes
the poems as 'done with much elegance.' Barnard was presented to the living of Brantingthorp,
Yorkshire, from which is dated his next publication, 'The Protestant Beadsman' (1822),
This is described by a writer in 'Notes and Queries' as a 'delightful little volume
on the saints and martyrs commemorated by the English church, containing biographical
notices of them, and hymns upon each of them.’ Barnard died prematurely on 10 Jan.
1828' (source: ODNB, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Barnard,_Edward_William).