Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch author, scholar and humanist St Mawes Lord Farquhar

Lord Farquhar

and Hawthorn on the far right

and tea gardens

View showing the Ionic facade of the house built in 1792-1794 and designed by Samuel Wyatt

Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch author, scholar and humanist St Mawes Lord FarquharDesiderius Erasmus, Dutch author, scholar and humanist, (1893). Erasmus (1497 1543) was probably the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance. A believer in the superiority of religious practices in earlier times, he was an advocate of reform of the Church. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume II, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1893.