ALAN R. H. BAKER
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780197264904
- eISBN:
- 9780191754081
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264904.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
Robin Donkin was an exceptional scholar in the field of historical geography, particularly concerning Latin America and the domestication of plants and animals globally. His early research was on the ...
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Robin Donkin was an exceptional scholar in the field of historical geography, particularly concerning Latin America and the domestication of plants and animals globally. His early research was on the effect of the Cistercians on medieval landscape, and he held posts at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Brimingham. Donkin then lectured in Latin American geography at the University of Cambridge. He was a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 1985. Obituary by Alan R. H. Baker FBA.Less
Robin Donkin was an exceptional scholar in the field of historical geography, particularly concerning Latin America and the domestication of plants and animals globally. His early research was on the effect of the Cistercians on medieval landscape, and he held posts at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Brimingham. Donkin then lectured in Latin American geography at the University of Cambridge. He was a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 1985. Obituary by Alan R. H. Baker FBA.
Kenneth R. Johnston
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199657803
- eISBN:
- 9780191771576
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199657803.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
William Frend (1757–1841) was a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, notable for intellectual brilliance and Christian good works. An early participant in the Sunday School movement, he prepared ...
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William Frend (1757–1841) was a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, notable for intellectual brilliance and Christian good works. An early participant in the Sunday School movement, he prepared reading texts for illiterate children in parishes he served. Like some other Cambridge faculty, Frend opposed the limits placed on Dissenting students by the 17th-century Test and Corporation Acts. He wrote a series of pamphlets challenging the doctrine of the Holy Trinity in the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Anglican creed. For these he successively lost his college privileges and university employment, eventually becoming a Unitarian. His Peace and Union Recommended to the Associated Bodies of Republicans and Anti-Republicans (1793), ostensibly an attempt to calm the rising tensions of political controversy, is rather a subtly provocative criticism of Pitt’s declaration of war on France. Exiled from the university, Frend pursued a lower-profile career as an insurance actuary.Less
William Frend (1757–1841) was a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, notable for intellectual brilliance and Christian good works. An early participant in the Sunday School movement, he prepared reading texts for illiterate children in parishes he served. Like some other Cambridge faculty, Frend opposed the limits placed on Dissenting students by the 17th-century Test and Corporation Acts. He wrote a series of pamphlets challenging the doctrine of the Holy Trinity in the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Anglican creed. For these he successively lost his college privileges and university employment, eventually becoming a Unitarian. His Peace and Union Recommended to the Associated Bodies of Republicans and Anti-Republicans (1793), ostensibly an attempt to calm the rising tensions of political controversy, is rather a subtly provocative criticism of Pitt’s declaration of war on France. Exiled from the university, Frend pursued a lower-profile career as an insurance actuary.
