Martin Farquhar Tupper

(1810-1889)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Tupper, Martin Farquhar, 1810-1889 NRA: Tupper Martin Farquhar (1810-1889) Author Poet Inventor DNB: Tupper, Martin Farquhar (1810-1889), poet and writer LBT ID: MaTuppe1889 VIAF ID: 100213709 LOC ID: n82106912	B/BAP: 1810-07-17 DIED: 1889-11-29
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The eldest son of the physician Martin Tupper (1780-1844), educated at Charterhouse, Christ Church, Oxford (where he befriended W. E. Gladstone) and Lincoln's Inn. He published the best-selling Proverbial Philosophy: a Book of Thoughts and Arguments (1838).
REFERENCES TO Martin Farquhar Tupper: Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch 5: Criticisms Verse 2: p. 51a p. 51a Ch. 15: Learned Societies Found 1: ¶ 28 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VII. 1847-50. Found 1: ¶ 15