Dr. Constantine Barber (1714 - March 13, 1783) was an Irish poet and physician.
Life[]
Youth and education[]
Barber was a son of poet Mary Barber.[1]
He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin,[1] entering the college in 1729, being elected a scholar in 1732, and earning a B.A. in 1734.[2]
He then studied medicine at the University of Leiden,[1] earning his M.D. in 1738.[2]
Career[]
He became a professor at Trinity College Dublin,[1] and was elected King's professor in 1747.[2]
He was 3 times president of the College of Physicians in Dublin,[1] in 1754, 1764, and 1769, and was elected a fellow of the College in 1782.[2]
He died 13 March 1783.[2]
Writing[]
He published poems in his mother's Poems on Several Occasions, 1735.[1]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Constantine Barber, Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive. Web, Mar. 30, 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Biographical Index, The Poems of Patrick Delaney (edited by Donald Charles Mell) University of Delaware Press, 2006, 194. Google Books, Web, Mar. 30, 2020.
External links[]
- Poems
- Constantine Barber at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (5 poems)
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