Mordaunt Roger Barnard, Rev. (22 December 1828 – 2 July 1906) was a

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clergyman and translator of works from

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. He was the eldest son of Mordaunt Barnard, Rector of

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, a rural

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and JP for Essex. He was born in Thornton-In-Craven,

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Biography

He was educated at

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and

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schools and at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1851. He was ordained as a deacon in Rochester in 1851 and as a priest in 1852. He served as British Chaplain in

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from 1858 until 1862 and as a

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in the village of Margaretting in

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from 1863 until 1906. He was a member of the Chelmsford Board of Guardians for nearly 30 years. He translated the first English edition of

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's novel Letters from Hell. He also translated

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into English

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Selected translations by Mordaunt Roger Barnard

*Frederik Christian Schubeler, S''ynopsis of the vegetable products of Norway'', 1862 *Anna Magdalene Thorensen,'' Signe’s history: A Norwegian tale'', 1865 *''The life of Thorvaldsen'': Collated from the Danish of Just Matthias Thiele, 1865 (Digitise

*M. Rowel (pseud. Valdemar Adolph Thisted),'' Letters from Hell'', 1866 *Carl Wilhelm Paijkull, ''A summer in Iceland'', 1868 *''The private life of the old Northmen'', translated from the posthumous works of Jacob Rudolph Keyser, 1868 (Digitise

0 *''The Odyssey,'' rendered into English blank verse, 1876 * August Blanche, August Theodor Blanche, ''Flickan i stadsgården, Master of His fate'': A Swedish tale, 1885 *

Jacob Breda Bull Jacob Breda Bull (28 March 1853 – 7 January 1930) was a Norwegian author, journalist and editor. Biography Jacob Bull was born at Rendalen in Hedmark, Norway. He was the son of parish priest Mathias Bull (1815–1876) and Henriette Margreth ...

, ''Fridtjof Nansen: A book for the young'', 1898

Works by Mordaunt Roger Barnard

*''Sport in Norway, and where to find it. Together with a short account of the vegetable productions of the country, etc'', 1864 *''Sketches of life, scenery, and sport in Norwa''y, 1871

References

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