Lewis Richard Farnell

Lewis Richard Farnell

From 1896, Farnell published many books,[3] including:

• The Cults of the Greek States (5 volumes)
• Greece and Babylon (See Ancient Greece and Babylon.) (1911)
• Outline-History of Greek Religion (1920)
• Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality (from a series of
  St Andrews University^[1]
  )
• The Evolution of Religion: An Anthropological Study (1905)

He delivered the following Gifford Lectures:^[1]

• Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality (1919–20)
• The Attributes of God (1924–25)

Family

In 1893, Farnell married Sylvia (born 1872), youngest daughter of Captain Christopher Baldock Cardew of

Farnell commemorated his brother,[4] George Stanley Farnell in the inscription of the 1896 edition of the first volume of the first edition of The Cults of the Greek States. The inscription read, "In memoriam fratris dilectissimi et nuper amissi, which means, "In memory of a most beloved and recently lost brother".

References

Further reading

• Lewis R. Farnell, An Oxonian Looks Back (memoir), Martin Hopkinson, London, 1934.

External links

• Works by or about Lewis Richard Farnell at Wikisource

This biographical article about an English academic administrator is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

This article relating to the University of Oxford is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e