FABER, REV. GEORGE STANLEY, was born on the 25th of October 1773. He was the eldest son of the Rev. Thomas Faber, who was descended from a French refugee who came over to England after the revocation of the edict of Nantes. Ho was educated at the grammar-school of Heppenholme, near Halifax in Yorkshire, where be remained till 1789, when he was entered of University College, Oxford. He took his degree of B.A. in 1792, and before he had reached his twenty-first year was elected a Fellow and Tutor of Lincoln College. He took his degree of M.A. in 1796, served the office of Proctor in 1801, and in the same year, as Bampton Lecturer, preached the discourses which ho shortly afterwards published under tho title of Horn Mosaicm.' He took the degree of RD. in 1803, and married in the same year. Having by this step relinquished his fellowship, he went to reaida with his father at Calverley, near Bradfurd in York shire, where for two years he acted as curate. In 1805 he was collated to the vicarage of Stockton.upon-Tees, iu the county of Durham, which he resigned in 1808 for that of Redmarshall, in the same county. In 1811 he was collated to the vicarage of Long-Newton, where he remained till 1831, when Bishop Burgess presented him to a prebeud in the cathedral of Salisbury. In 1832 Bishop Van Mildcrt gave him the mastership of Sherburn Hospital, near the city of Durham, when he resigned the vicarage of Long-Newton. During his mastership he considerably increased the value of the estates of the Hospital. He rebuilt the chapel, the house, and the offices, and greatly improved the grounda ; he augmented the incomes of the incumbents of livings under his patronage, restored the chancels of their churches, and erected agricultural buildings on the farms. lie
died at his residence, Sherburn Hospital, on the 27th of January, 1854.
The theological writings of Mr. Faber, particularly those on prophecy, have had a very wide circulation. One of the principles for the inter pretation of prophecy which ho chiefly laboured to establish and exemplify, was, that the delineatioua of eventa in prophecy are not applicable to the doatinics of individuals, but to those of governments and nations. His writings are numerous, and we can only mention a few of the most important :—'110173 Mosaics; or a View of the Mosaical Records, with respect to their Coincidence with Profane Antiquity, their internal Credibility, and their Connexion with Christianity, 2 vols. 8vo, 1801 ; ' A Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabyri, or the great gods of Phoenicia, Samothrace, Egypt, Trees, Greece, Italy, and Crete, 2 vela. 8vo ; ' Dissertation on the Prophecies that have been fulfilled, are now fulfilling, or will hereafter bo fulfilled, relative to the great Period of 1260 Years,' 2 vols. 8vo, 1806; 'A Oeneral and Connected View of the Prophecies relating to the Conversion, Restora tion, Union, and future Olory of Judah and Israel,' 2 vols. 8vo, 1808 ; 'The Origin of Pagan Idolatry,' 3 vole. 8vo, 1816; 'A Treatise on the Genius and Object of the Patriarchal, the Levitical, and the ' Christian Dispensation,' 2 vole. 8vo, 1823; ' The Sacred Calendar of Prophecy, or a Dissertation on the Prophecies which treat of the Grand Period of Seven Times,' 3 vols. 8vo, 1828; Eight Dissertations on certain connected Prophetical Passages of Holy Scriptures bearing more or less upon the Promise of a Mighty Deliverer,' 2 vols. 8vo, 1845.