Note 37 — III GEORGE FARQUHAR 1677-1707
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Incipit Annus Academicus Die Julii 9a 1694.
Die 17a JuliiGeorgius Farquhare Sizatorfilius Gulielmi Farqhare ClericiAnnos 17Natus Londonderryibidem educatus sub magistro WalkerEu. Lloyd (college tutor)
This matriculation entry from the register of Trinity does away with our sizar’s presumed father, Rev. John Farquhar, prebendary of Raphoe. We hear nothing more, ever after, of the Farquhar family, who henceforth leave young George to his own profane devices; nor can any certainty be attached to additional information, sometimes proffered, that the father had seven children in all, and held a living of only one hundred and fifty pounds a year. One other point is fixed by the entry, to wit: if George Farquhar was seventeen in the July of 1694, he cannot have been born in 1678.