Edward Barnard (provost)
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Edward Barnard (1717–1781) was an English cleric and academic, provost of Eton from 1764.
Barnard was second son of Rev. George Barnard, of Harpenden, Herts. Rector of Knebworth, 1737, and Luton, 1745–60.[1] He was a foundation scholar at Eton College and, becoming superannuated, entered St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1736, M.A. in 1742, B.D. in 1760 and D.D. in 1766.[2] He was fellow of his college from March 1743–4 to 1766. In 1762, he was at Eton as tutor to Henry Townshend, brother to Lord Sydney, and he also became tutor to George Hardinge, afterwards Welsh justice, whose recollections of Barnard are given at length in Nichols's Anecdotes (viii. 543–554).
