Lewis Richard Farnell
Oxford vice-chancellor and scholar of Greek cults.
Lewis Richard Farnell (1856–1934) was a British classical scholar and an Oxford academic. He served as vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1920 to 1923. He was a Fellow of the British Academy.
Quick Facts
- Took office
- 1920
- Left office
- 1923
- Predecessor
- Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston
- Successor
- Joseph Wells
- Born
- 1856
- Birthplace
- Salisbury
- Died
- 1934
- Alma mater
- Exeter College, Oxford
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Early life and career
Lewis Richard Farnell came into the world in Salisbury in 1856. His schooling took place at the City of London School, followed by Exeter College, Oxford, where he secured a first-class degree in Literae Humaniores in 1878. Two years later, in 1880, he was made a Fellow of Exeter College, and he began lecturing in classics there in 1883. By January 1903, he was teaching Classical Archaeology at the university, and he eventually became the College’s Rector. Over the period from 1880 to 1893, he journeyed across Europe, digging into classical archaeology in Berlin and Munich, and also traveled through Asia Minor and Greece. In 1901, he became a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and received a D.Litt. from Oxford. The British Academy elected him a Fellow in 1916.
Family
In 1893, Farnell married Sylvia, the youngest daughter of Captain Christopher Baldock Cardew of East Liss, Hampshire, and a granddaughter of Lord Chancellor Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury. The marriage produced three sons and one daughter. Farnell honored his brother George Stanley Farnell in the 1896 edition of the first volume of The Cults of the Greek States, with the Latin inscription "In memoriam fratris dilectissimi et nuper amissi."
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