FARRAR, FREDERIC WILLIAM (1831-1903). A distinguished English clergyman, born at Bom bay, India. He studied at the University of Lon don and at Trinity College, Cambridge, was or dained deacon in 1854, and priest in 1857. For several years he was an assistant master at Har row, and from 1871 to 1876 was head-master of Marlborough College. In 1876 he was appointed a canon of Westminster Abbey and rector of Saint Margaret's. He became Archdeacon of Westminster in 1883. chaplain of the House of Commons in 1890, and Dean of Canterbury in 1895. He was Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge in 1870, Bampton lecturer at Oxford in 1885, and in the latter year visited the United States. A popular fignre among the English clergy, he has been prominently connected with numerous phil anthropic enterprises. His literary work is ex tensive and varied, including volumes of fiction, philological and theological studies, comment aries, biography, history, and didactic treatises.
From a long list of titles may be cited Eric (1858) ; The Origin of Language (1860) ; Chap ters on Language (1865) ; A Lecture on Public School Education (1867): Essays on a Liberal Education (2d ed. MS) ; Seekers After Cod (1860); The Witness of History to Christ (1871), the Hulsean Lectures for I570; a much read Life of Christ (2 vols.. 1g74: 12th ed. in the same Year) ; a Life of Saint Paul ( 1879) ; The Early Days of Christianity (2 vols., 1882) Eter nal hope (1878), in refutation of the extreme doctrine of eternal punishment; The Bible, its Meaning and Supremacy (1897). an investiga tion of the subject of inspiration; Texts Ex plained (1899) : and The Life of Lives (1899).