Joshua Barnes 1654-1712

Joshua BARNES 1654-1712

Joshus Barnes's bookplate (British Museum Franks Collection)

Biographical Note

Son of Edward Barnes of St Stephen, Coleman Street parish, London, a tailor. Admitted a servitor of Emmanuel College, Cambridge 1671, BA 1675, fellow 1678, MA 1679, BD 1686. A Greek scholar and antiquary, Barnes was made Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge in 1695 but, as the university grew increasingly hostile to his pro-Stuart sympathies, he grew closer to Oxford scholarly circles and became friends with the likes of Edward Bernard, Francis Cherry, and Thomas Hearne. In 1700 Barnes married a Mrs Mason, a widow of Hemingford, near St Ives, Huntingdonshire and was married to her until his death in 1712.

Books

Barnes used an engraved armorial bookplate dated 1700. The papers of Thomas Hearne include a list of Barnes's unpublished works; many of which can be found in Emmanuel College library.

Sources

• Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903. 1537/*533.
• Haugen, Kristine L. "Barnes, Joshua (1654–1712), Greek scholar and antiquary." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.