Publication

1987 - Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, Scotland

Language

English

Word Count

60,000 words, Guess

Page Count

240 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number88159287
  • Goodreads5143052
  • LibraryThing7560877

Classifications

  • LCCLF775 .A53 1987

Description

"This book is not a contribution to the history of English higher education or of Victorian philanthropy. It is a biography, largely based on his own journals, of an English eccentric who left a fortune to Southampton, with an account of his forebears who made the fortune and of the problems that his bequest raised"--P. ix. Henry Robinson Hartley (1777-1850) "... was anti-Christian, opposed to the social order of his day, a misanthropic and eccentric recluse who abandoned Southampton and even England in disgust and protest. His main con- cern, in his bequest to Southampton Corporation, was the preservation of his houses, books, writings and personalia, to continue after his death his mute protest in life against the town's nineteenth-century development and industralisation"--P. 1.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryBiographyBibliographyScottish Gaelic imprintsUniversity of SouthamptonHartley, Henry Robinson, 1777-1850.University of Southampton -- History.

People

Henry Robinson Hartley (1777-1850)

Other Editions

  • Hartleyana: being some account of the life and opinions of Henry Robinson Hartley, scholar, naturalist, eccentric, and founder of the University of SouthamptonScottish Academic Press1987-01-01

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