Edgar Innes Fripp
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Edgar Innes Fripp (27 November 1861 – 9 November 1931) was a Unitarian minister and English antiquarian who specialized in Shakespearean research in the archives of Stratford-upon-Avon, and the father of the artist Paul Fripp.
Life
[edit]Born in London to George Arthur Fripp (1813–1896) and Mary Fripp, nee Percival (1825–1887).[1] Fripp graduated from Manchester College, Oxford, and served as a Unitarian minister from 1887 to 1924.[2]
He died on 9 Nov 1931 in Colchester, Essex, and was buried on 12 Nov 1931 in Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire.
Family
[edit]Fripp married Edith Caroline Morley on 16 Apr 1889, and they had four children. She died 28 Jan 1945 in Mitford, Northumberland, and is buried with her husband in Stratford.[3]
Major works
[edit]The composition of the book of Genesis. (1892)
Minutes and accounts of the corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon and other records, 1553–1566. Vol 1. (1921) With Richard Savage. Dugdale Society.
Minutes and accounts of the corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon and other records, 1566–1577. Vol 2. (1924) With Richard Savage. Dugdale Society.
Master Richard Quyny: Bailiff of Stratford-upon-Avon and friend of William Shakespeare. (1924) Oxford UP.
Minutes and accounts of the corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon and other records, 1577–1586. Vol 3. (1926) With Richard Savage. Dugdale Society.
Shakespeare's Stratford. (1928) Oxford UP.
Minutes and accounts of the corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon and other records, 1586–1592. Vol. 4 (1929). With Richard Savage. Dugdale Society.
Shakespeare's haunts near Stratford. (1929) Oxford UP.
Shakespeare Studies, biographical and literary. (1930)
Shakespeare, man and artist. Frederick Christian Wellstood, ed. 2 vols. (1938) Oxford UP
References
[edit]- ^ "Edgar Innes Fripp", The Fripp & Pocock families of Bristol, England, accessed 17 March 2012.
- ^ Ruston, Alan, ed. Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society: Obituaries of Unitarian Ministers 1900–2004, Index and Synopsis. Archived 2012-01-15 at the Wayback Machine 2006-10. Unitarian Historical Society. Accessed 16 March 2011.
- ^ "Edgar Innes Fripp", The Fripp & Pocock families of Bristol, England, accessed 17 March 2012.
External links
[edit]Wilson, James Southall. Shakespeare and His Friends. Review of Shakespeare: Man and Artist. 1938. Virginia Quarterly Review 14: 4 (Autumn 1938), pp. 637–640. Accessed 16 March 2011.
- Works by or about Edgar Innes Fripp at the Internet Archive
- Video about lecture written by E.I. Fripp archived in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust library.