Benjamin Farrington [SEP] educated at
perspective of some critics, his Marxist commitments overshadowed his scholarly work, heavily tainting his work. One of his better known pamphlets on socialism, written in 1940, is "The Challenge of Socialism".
Academic career.
Benjamin Farrington received a Classics degree from University College in Cork, Ireland, and then a degree in Middle English from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Then, from 1915–1917 he pursued a master's degree in English from University College, completing his thesis in 1917 on Shelley's translation from the
Richard Farrington
Richard Farrington (1702 – 16 October 1772) was a Welsh Anglican priest and antiquarian.
Life.
Farrington was born in 1702 and was educated at the University of Oxford, matriculating from Jesus College, Oxford in 1720 and obtaining his BA in 1724. After ordination and his first curacy, possibly at Gresford, he moved to Bromfield before becoming linked to St Asaph Cathedral in 1739. He was later appointed vicar of Llanwnda and Llanfaglan (1741), rector of Llangybi (1742) and chancellor of