Edward William Barnard
Edward William Barnard (1791–1828) was an English clergyman, poet and scholar. He studied at Harrow School and Trinity College.
In 1817 he published anonymous Poems, founded upon the Poems of Meleager. A year later, in 1818, it was re-edited as Trifles, imitative of the Chaster Style of Meleager and dedicated to Thomas Moore, who said his manuscript showed “much elegance.”
Barnard became the vicar of Brantingthorp, Yorkshire. In 1822 he published The Protestant Beadsman, a small, delightful volume about the saints and martyrs of the English church, with biographical notices and hymns for each.
He died on 10 January 1828, while collecting material for an ambitious life of the Italian poet Marcantonio Flaminio. He gathered many extracts and notes, but the work was only partly finished at his death. Some translations were published for private circulation, edited by Francis Wrangham, along with some of Barnard’s poems, in Fifty Select Poems of Marc-Antonio Flaminio (1829), with a short memoir by Wrangham.
Barnard had planned a History of the English Church and left materials for it. He married the daughter of Francis Wrangham and was regarded as a most exemplary parish priest.
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