Romilly's Cambridge Diary, 1832 42: Selected Passages from the Diary of the REV. Joseph Romilly, Fellow of Trinity College and Registrary of the Unive (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108002455)

The Rev. Joseph Romilly (1791-1864) was a bachelor clergyman of the Church of England, a Fellow of Trinity College, and from 1832 to 1861, Registrary of the University of Cambridge. He kept a regular diary from 1829 to his death, and this selection, introduced and edited by J. P. T. Bury, covers the years 1832-1842. Romilly was a cultured and travelled man of means; he met many of the ablest scholars and leaders of his day, and was a welcome guest in great houses. This volume, which begins in the year of Romilly's election as Registrary, is a unique record of Cambridge before the Royal Commission of 1852, with many valuable sidelights on nineteenth-century society and on intellectual life - or the more relaxed side of it.

Author: Joseph Romilly
ISBN-10: 1108002455
ISBN-13: 9781108002455
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/20/2009
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d