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University of Cambridge.
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Thomas Farmer
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Farmer was originally one of a company of musicians in London and played in the waits. He took the degree of Music. B. at Cambridge in 1684.
The date of his death is fixed only by the fact that Henry Purcell wrote an elegy on him to words by Nahum Tate, published in Orpheus Britannicus, ii.
35, and beginning "Young Thyrsis" fate ye hills and groves deplore". This establishes the fact that Farmer died before November 1695, and probably he died young.
John Hawkins stated that his house was in Martlet Court, Bow Street, Covent Garden.
