Anthony Farmer (born 1657[1]) was an Englishman nominated by King James II to the office of President of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1687.
[3] Farmer's appointment and subsequent rejection escalated tension between the King and the Anglican establishment, and was one event among many that led to the Glorious Revolution in 1688.
Farmer was also said to be a lascivious drunk and womaniser who preferred to be down at the local taverns along the River Thames near Oxford than attending to academic duties.
One of those providing evidence against Farmer was William Levett, Doctor of Divinity and Principal of Magdalen Hall, Oxford (and later Dean of Bristol).
"Frequent complaints were brought to me by some of the masters," stated Levett, "that he raised quarrels and differences among them; that he often occasioned disturbances, and was of a troublesome and unpeaceable humour.