Hartleyana
Subtitle: being some account of the life and opinions of Henry Robinson Hartley, scholar, naturalist, eccentric and founder of the University of Southampton
By: by Alexander Anderson, sometime a librarian in that University.
Series: Southampton Records series; SRS supplementary volume
Publisher: Scottish Academic Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Hartley, Henry Robinson, -- 1777-1850.
Description: "This book is not a contribution to the history of English higher education or of Victorian philanthropy. It is a biography, largely based on his own journals, of an English eccentric who left a fortune to Southampton, with an account of his forebears who made the fortune and of the problems that his bequest raised"--P. ix. Henry Robinson Hartley (1777-1850) "... was anti-Christian, opposed to the social order of his day, a misanthropic and eccentric recluse who abandoned Southampton and even England in disgust and protest. His main con- cern, in his bequest to Southampton Corporation, was the preservation of his houses, books, writings and personalia, to continue after his death his mute protest in life against the town's nineteenth-century development and industralisation"--P. 1.