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). | |