| 词条 | Henry Homer the elder |
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Henry Homer, the elder (1719 – 24 July 1791) was an English clergyman, known as a writer on topics related to economic development. LifeThe son of Edward Homer of Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, was educated at Oxford, where he matriculated on 26 June 1736 as a member of University College. He became a demy of Magdalen College in 1737, and graduated B.A. in 1740, M.A. in 1743.[1] Homer was appointed rector of Birdingbury, Warwickshire, and vicar of Willoughby in 1764; and chaplain to Edward Leigh, 5th Baron Leigh. From 1774 to 1779 he also held the vicarage of Ansty. He died on 24 July 1791, and was buried at Birdingbury.[1] WorksHomer published:[1]
Homer was a commissioner for enclosures, and drew up instructions for the surveyors carrying out the practical work involved.[2] He is considered a significant author on agrarian improvement.[3] Himself a supporter of enclosure, he identified four common objections:
Homer's Essay was published early in the major controversy over enclosures, of 1760 to 1790. During it, he had a local opponent in Stephen Addington.[5]
FamilyHomer had 17 children, including Arthur Homer, Henry the younger, and Philip Bracebridge Homer.[1] Notes1. ^1 2 3 {{cite DNB|wstitle=Homer, Henry (1719-1791)|volume=27}} 2. ^{{cite book|author1=Roger J. P. Kain|author2=John Chapman|author3=Richard R. Oliver|title=The Enclosure Maps of England and Wales 1595-1918: A Cartographic Analysis and Electronic Catalogue|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EBR36hOSTfUC&pg=PA40|date=1 July 2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-82771-3|page=40}} 3. ^{{cite book|author=Paul Langford|title=Public Life and the Propertied Englishman, 1689-1798|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cpZ09gssctsC&pg=PA431|year=1991|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-820149-6|page=431}} 4. ^Leigh Shaw-Taylor, Labourers, Cows, Common Rights and Parliamentary Enclosure: The Evidence of Contemporary Comment c. 1760-1810, Past & Present No. 171 (May, 2001), pp. 95-126, at p. 105. Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of The Past and Present Society. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3600815 5. ^Edward Carter Kersey Gonner, Common Land and Inclosure (1912), p. 191; [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924079597336#page/n227/mode/2up archive.org.] 6. ^{{cite book|author=David Spadafora|title=The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth-century Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S2xlyiU4_a4C&pg=PA58|year=1990|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-04671-7|page=58}}
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