Romilly's Cambridge Diary, 1832–42
Selected Passages from the Diary of the Rev. Joseph Romilly, Fellow of Trinity College and Registrary of the University of Cambridge

An entertaining glimpse of Cambridge intellectual and social life in the nineteenth century from the diary of a senior don.

Joseph Romilly (Author), John Patrick Tuer Bury (Edited by)

9781108002455, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

300 pages, 1 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.44 kg

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.

1. Introduction
2. The Diary
Indexes.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]