Author: Barnard, Edward William
Biography:
BARNARD, Edward William (1791-1828: ODNB)
He was born on 16 Mar. 1791, the third son of Henry Boldero Barnard (1755-1815) of Cave Castle, Brough, Yorkshire, and his wife Sarah Gee (1762-1832), who had married in 1788. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College Cambridge (matric. 1810, BA 1813, MA 1817) and then entered the established church. He was ordained deacon (1814) and priest (1815) and was variously Curate at Brantingham (1815), South Cave (1817), and Brantingham Thorp (1822), all in Yorkshire. He married Philadelphia Frances Esther Wrangham, daughter of Rev. Francis Wrangham (q.v.) on 25 Apr. 1821 at St. Mary and St. Nicholas, Beverley, Yorkshire. They had one son and three daughters. His early imitations, listed here, of the classical Syrian-Greek poet Meleager of Gadara were praised by Thomas Moore (q.v.). His next publication attached hymns to biographies of saints and martyrs in The Protestant Beadsman (1822). At the time of his death he was collecting materials for a history of the church and a life of the Italian Renaissance Latin poet Marcantonio Flaminio (1498-1550). His father-in-law Francis Wrangham edited his translations as Fifty Select Poems of Marc-Antonio Flaminio . . . With a Short Memoir of the Author (1829). This contained an uninformative memoir (ii-viii), a miscellany of his English verse (ix-xxvi), a life of Flaminio (iii-xxii), and the fifty translations. He died on 10 Jan. 1828 at Dee Bank, Chester. His youngest daughter, Emily, had died four days earlier, aged 16 months. His widow married Rev. Charles W. Wynne Eyton in 1848. (ODNB 1 Sept. 2022; Fifty Select Poems [1829], ii-viii; Leeds Intelligencer 30 Apr. 1821; Yorkshire Gazette 19 Jan. 1828; GM Feb. 1828, 187; LES 6 Mar. 1848) AA
Other Names:
- E. W. Barnard
- Edw. Will. Barnard