COLL P 18
Reference code
COLL P 18
Title
Papers of Provost Barnard, 1765 - 1781
Level
Series
Administrative / Biographical history
A King's Scholar 1732 - 1735, he went on to St John's College, Cambridge, becoming a Fellow there in 1744. In 1752 he returned to Eton as a private tutor and in 1754 was appointed Head Master. He was Rector of St Paul's Cray and Footscray in Kent, also Vicar of Ospringe from 1756 - 1777. In 1760 he was appointed a Canon of St George's, Windsor and he was elected Provost in 1765, succeeding Stephen Sleech.
Date
1777 - 1780
Associated material
Further letters from him in ED 352. A christening robe linked to him, probably that of his son Edward, belongs to the Colonial Willaimsburg Foundation, USA. (see Linda Baumgarten : What Clothes Reveal (Yale 2002) fig.231).
R.A. Austen Leigh, Eton under Barnard 1754-1765, (Eton, 1904)
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- Provost Barnard: Letter commending a work on Latin Grammar, COLL P 18 01, (1 March 1777)
- Provost Barnard: Letter of condolence to a friend, COLL P 18 02, (19 October 1767)
- Provost Barnard: Letter recommending a friend to a living, COLL P 18 03, (7 July 1769)
- Provost Barnard: Letter concerning the Statutes of the College, COLL P 18 04, ([1769])
- Provost Barnard: Letter concerning augmentations to living of Boveney, COLL P 18 05, (7 April 1780)
- Provost Barnard: Account books, COLL P 18 06, (1754 - 1767)
- Provost Barnard: Pledge not to run for Head Mastership, COLL P 18 07, (1 February 1754)