ROMILLY'S CAMBRIDGE DIARY, 1832-42 by Joseph Romilly, John Patrick Tuer Bury (Editor) ( 9781108002455 )

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ROMILLY'S CAMBRIDGE DIARY, 1832-42
SELECTED PASSAGES FROM THE DIARY OF THE REV. JOSEPH ROMILLY, FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE AND REGISTRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

By:

Joseph Romilly, John Patrick Tuer Bury (Editor)

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1108002455

ISBN 13:

9781108002455

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION

Pub. date:

20 July, 2009

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Cambridge

Pages:

300

Description:

An entertaining glimpse of Cambridge intellectual and social life in the nineteenth century from the diary of a senior don.

Synopsis:

The Rev. Joseph Romilly (1791-1864) was a bachelor clergyman of the Church of England, a Fellow of Trinity College, and from 1832 to 1861, Registrary of the University of Cambridge. He kept a regular diary from 1829 to his death, and this selection, introduced and edited by J. P. T. Bury, covers the years 1832-1842. Romilly was a cultured and travelled man of means; he met many of the ablest scholars and leaders of his day, and was a welcome guest in great houses. This volume, which begins in the year of Romilly's election as Registrary, is a unique record of Cambridge before the Royal Commission of 1852, with many valuable sidelights on nineteenth-century society and on intellectual life - or the more relaxed side of it.

Illustrations:

1 b/w illus.

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Imprint:

Cambridge University Press

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