John Farquhar

(1751-1826)

LBT ID: JoFarqu1826	B/BAP: 1751 DIED: 1826-07-06
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (September 1826) 278-80
Scottish gunpowder manufacturer who after making a fortune in India purchased Fonthill Abbey from William Beckford in 1822. A notorious miser, he was said to have offered a Scottish university £100,000 to endow a professorship of Atheism.
REFERENCES TO John Farquhar: Thomas Medwin, “Hazlitt in Switzerland: a Conversation” in Fraser’s Magazine 19 (March 1839) 278-283 Found 1: ¶ 15 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) William Hazlitt XIV Found 1: ¶ 2 William Hazlitt XV Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 79 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter IX Found 1: ¶ 35