Author: Yeatman, Henry Farr
Biography:
YEATMAN, Henry Farr (1786-1861: ancestry.co.uk)
Henry (Harry) Farr was baptised on 15 Feb. 1786 at Melcombe Regis, Dorset, the son of the Rev. Henry Farr Yeatman (1751-96), Rector of Kilve and from 1790, Prebendary at Wells, and his wife Louisa Shuttleworth, who had married the previous year. Like his father he was educated at Balliol, Oxford (BCL 1812) and also entered the church, becoming Rector of Stock Gaylard, Dorset, in 1819. He later served as Chairman of the Dorset Quarter Sessions (1836-61). He married Sarah Wolcott on 26 Nov. 1810 at Lyme Regis, Dorset. They had seven children, with the eldest son, also named Harry Farr, going to Balliol and entering the church. He died on 22 April 1861 at his home, Stock House, Stock Gaylard, leaving an estate of around £14,000. His youthful poem, Brent Knoll (1817), is a 1000-line topographical poem with 30 pages of learned notes. Thereafter he concerned himself with clerical and legal matters, with only his Letter . . . on the Merits of the Poor Law Report (1833) likely to be of interest to modern readers. (ancestry.co.uk 19 Oct. 2020; Oxford Journal 17 Dec. 1796, 22 Dec. 1810; Weston super Mare Gazette 27 July 1861) AA
Other Names:
- Harry Farr Yeatman