Author: Farish, Charles
Biography:
FARISH, Charles (1766-1824: ancestry.com)
One of the five sons of Elizabeth (Gilpin) and James Farish, he was born in Carlisle on 1 Sept. 1766 and baptised on 6 Nov. His father was a clergyman, the vicar of Stanwix, Carlisle. Three of the sons went from Carlisle Grammar School to different Cambridge colleges--where they all did very well--and also took orders. Charles started at Trinity and "migrated" to Queens (matric. 1784, BA 1788, MA 1791, BD 1799); from 1792 until the end of his life he was a Fellow of Queens. Ordained in 1790, he was Lecturer at St. Cuthbert's, Carlisle, 1801-4, then curate at Sawston, Cambridgeshire (1808) and at Pampisford, Cambridgeshire (1809). In 1807 he published a pamphlet arguing the case for toleration of marriage in the universities, perhaps reflecting his own experience or possibly that of his brother William (1759-1837), a distinguished professor of chemistry who attended Magdalene but in 1801 resigned his college fellowship to marry. (That marriage produced four sons who likewise all attended Cambridge.) His one acknowledged volume of verse was rather harshly reviewed, readers complaining about arcane place-names and local Lake District allusions. He died at Cambridge. (ancestry.com 6 Jul. 2021; "Farish, William," ODNB 6 Jul. 2021; ACAD 6 Jul. 2021; GM June 1824, 573; Poetical Register 8: 622; MR 67 [1812] 96-7)