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See also: English divine, was See also: born on the 7th of See also: August 1831, in the Fort of Bombay, where his See also: father, afterwards See also: vicar of Sidcup, Kent, was then a missionary
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His early See also: education was received in See also: King
See also: William's
See also: College, See also: Castletown, Isle of See also: Man, a school whose See also: external surroundings are- reproduced in his popular schoolboy tale, See also: Eric; or, Little by Little
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In 1847 he entered King's College, See also: London
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Through the influence of F.D
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See also: Maurice he was led to the study of See also: Coleridge, whose writings had a profound influence upon his faith and opinions
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He proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge,in See also: October 1851, and in the following See also: year took the degree of B.A. at the university of London
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In 1854 he took his degree as See also: fourth junior optime, and fourth in the first class of the classical tripos
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In addition to other college prizes he gained the chancellor's medal for the English prize poem on the See also: search for See also: Sir See also: John
See also: Franklin in 1852, the Le Bas prize and the Norrisian prize
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He was elected See also: fellow of Trinity College in 1856
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On leaving the university See also: Farrar became an assistant-master under G
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E
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L
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See also: Cotton at See also: Marlborough College
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In See also: November 1855 he was appointed an assistant-master at See also: Harrow, where he remained for fifteen years
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He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1864, university preacher in 1868, honorary See also: chaplain to the See also: queen in 1869 and Hulsean lecturer in 1870
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In 1871 he was appointed headmaster of Marlborough College, and in the following year he became chaplain-in-ordinary to the queen
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In 1876 he was appointed See also: canon of See also: Westminster and rector of St See also: Margaret's, Westminster
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He took his D.D. degree in 1874, the first under the new regulations at Cambridge
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Farrar began his See also: literary labours with the publication of his schoolboy See also: story Eric in 1858, succeeded in the following year by Julian Home and Lyrics of See also: Life, and in 1862 by St Winifred's; or the See also: World of School
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He had already published a See also: work on The Origin of Language, and followed it up by a series of See also: works on grammar and scholastic See also: philology, including Chapters on Language (1865) ; See also: Greek Grammar Rules (1865); Greek Syntax (1866); and Families of Speech (1869)
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He edited Essays on a Liberal Education_ in 1868; and published Seekers after See also: God in the See also: Sunday Library (1869)
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It was by his theological works, how-ever, that Farrar attained his greatest popularity
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His Hulsean lectures were published in 1870 under the title of The Witness of See also: History to Christ
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The Life of Christ, which was published in 1874, speedily passed through a See also: great number of See also: editions, and is still in much demand
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It reveals considerable See also: powers of See also: imagination and eloquence, and was partly inspired by a See also: personal knowledge of the sacred localities depicted
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In 1877 appeared In the Days of My Youth, sermons preached in the See also: chapel of Marlborough College; and during the same year his See also: volume of sermons on Eternal Hope—in which he called in question the dogma of See also: everlasting punishment—caused much controversy in religious circles and did much to mollify the harsh See also: theology of an earlier age
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There is little doubt that his boldness and liberality of thought barred his See also: elevation to the episcopate
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In 1879 appeared The Life and Works of St See also: Paul, and this was succeeded in 1882 by The Early Days of See also: Christianity
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Then came in See also: order of publication the following works: Everyday Christian Life; or, Sermons by the Way (1887); Lives of the Fathers (1888) ; Sketches of See also: Church History (1889) ; Darkness and Dawn, a story of the Neronic persecution (1891); The
See also: Voice from See also: Sinai (1892) ; The Life of Christ as Represented in See also: Art (1894) ; a work on Daniel (1895); Gathering Clouds, a tale of the days of See also: Chrysostom (1896); and The See also: Bible, its Meaning and Supremacy (1896)
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Farrar was a copious contributor of articles to various magazines, encyclopaedias and theological commentaries
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In 1883 he was made archdeacon of Westminster and rural dean; in 1885 he was appointed See also: Hampton lecturer at See also: Oxford, and took for his subject " The History of Interpretation." He was appointed dean of See also: Canterbury in 1895
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From 1890 to 1895 he was chaplain to the See also: speaker of the See also: House of See also: Commons, and in 1894 he was appointed deputy-clerk of the closet to Queen See also: Victoria
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He died at Canterbury on the 22nd of See also: March 1903
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As a theologian Farrar occupied a position midway between the Evangelical party and the Broad Church; while as a somewhat rhetorical preacher and writer he exerted a commanding influence over wide circles of. readers
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He was an ardent
See also: temperance and social reformer, and was one of the founders of the institution known as the See also: Anglican Brotherhood, a religious See also: band with See also: modern aims and See also: objects
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See his Life, by his son R
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