Brewer's: Shepherd of Banbury

(The). The ostensible author of a Weather Guide. He styles himself John Claridge, Shepherd; but the real author is said to have been Dr. John Campbell. (First published in 1744.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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