Frederic Farrar
Canterbury, Kent, England | |
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Occupation | Cleric, writer |
Alma mater | |
Period | 19th century |
Genre | Theology, children's literature |
Subject | The Highest Heaven. Farrar commentary |
Biography
Farrar was born in
Farrar spent much of his career associated with
Farrar was a classics scholar and a
Farrar's religious writings included Life of Christ (1874), which had great popularity, and Life of St. Paul (1879). He also contributed, first as Canon Farrar then as Archdeacon Farrar, two volumes to the commentary series The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges, on the Gospel according to St. Luke and on the Epistle to the Hebrews. His works were translated into many languages, especially Life of Christ.
Farrar believed that some could be saved after death.[7][8] He originated the term "abominable fancy" for the longstanding Christian idea that the eternal punishment of the damned would entertain the saved.[9] Farrar published Eternal Hope in 1878 and Mercy and Judgment in 1881, both of which defend his position on hell at length.[7][10]
Farrar was accused of
In April 1882, the then Canon Farrar was one of ten pallbearers at the funeral of Charles Darwin in Westminster Abbey; the others were: The Duke of Devonshire, The Duke of Argyll, The Earl of Derby, Mr. J. Russell Lowell, Mr. W. Spottiswoode, Sir Joseph Hooker, Mr. A. R. Wallace, Thomas Huxley, and Sir John Lubbock (John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury) [11][12]
Family
On 1 August 1860 at St Leonard's Church, Exeter, he married Lucy Mary Cardew; they had five sons and five daughters:[11]
- Reginald Anstruther Farrar (1861-)
- Evelyn Lucy Farrar (1862-)
- Hilda Cardew Farrar (1863-1908)
- Maud Farrar (1864-1949)
- Eric Maurice Farrar (1866-)
- Sibyl Farrar (1867-)
- Cyril Lytton Farrar (1869-)
- Lilian Farrar (1870-)
- Frederic Percival Farrar (1871-1946)
- Ivor Granville Farrar (1874-1944) (born Bernard Farrar)
The first eight were born at Harrow; the last two were born at Marlborough.
The second daughter, Hilda, was married in 1881 to John Stafford Northcote, vicar of St Andrew's, Westminster. John was the third son of Sir Stafford Northcote, 1st Baronet (later created the 1st Earl of Iddesleigh); John and Hilda's son Henry (1901-1970) succeeded as the 3rd Earl of Iddesleigh in 1927.
Farrar allowed his third daughter, Maud, to become engaged to
Farrar's son Reginald published his biography in 1902.[6] Dean Farrar died on 22 March 1903, and was buried in the cloister of the Canterbury Cathedral.[11]
Farrar has a street named after him – Dean Farrar Street in Westminster, London. There is also a memorial to him at the church of St Margaret's, Westminster by the sculptor Nathaniel Hitch.
Works
- An Essay on the Origin of Language (1860)
- Chapters on Language (1865)
- Life of Christ (1874)
- Eternal Hope (1878)
- The Vow of the Nazarite (1879)
- Mercy and Judgement (1881)
- Life and Works of St. Paul (1879)
- History of Interpretation (1886)
- Lives of the Fathers Volume 1 (1889)
- Lives of the Fathers Volume 2 (1889)
- The Gospel According to St Luke Volume 40 in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (1891)
- The Epistle of Paul to the Hebrews Volume 65 in The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (1891)
- The Voice from Sinai (1892)
- The Bible: Its Meaning and Supremacy (1897)
- The Early Days of Christianity (1882)
Fiction
- Eric, or Little by Little, a school story (1858)
- Julian Home, a college story (1859)
- St Winifred's, or The World of School (1862)
- Darkness and Dawn, or Scenes in the Days of Nero (1891)
- Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom (1895)
- Truths to Live By (1890)
Notes
- ^ "Farrar, Frederic William (FRR849FW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ University of Cambridge (1859). A Complete Collection of the English Poems which Have Obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge (PDF). Cambridge: W. Metcalfe. Retrieved 1 October 2008.
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1898 p403: London, Horace Cox, 1898
- ^ A Famous Churchman, in the Red River Prospector, published 2 May 1901; retrieved 17 May 2014
- ^ Alter, Stephen G. (1991). Darwinism and the Linguistic Image: Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the Nineteenth Century. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
- ^ a b c Farrar, Reginald (1902). The life of Frederic William Farrar, D.D., F.R.S., etc., sometime dean of Canterbury. New York: T.Y. Crowell.
- ^ a b F. W. Farrar. Mercy and Judgment. 1881.
- ^ The Eternal Fate of Unbelievers, Part II, "The Witness of Church History (2): The Modern Period", excerpted and adapted from Hell on Trial: The Case for Eternal Punishment by Robert A. Peterson (Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing), 1995, Extract by Garry J. Moes.
- ^ The Decline of Hell: Seventeenth-Century Discussions of Eternal Torment. Walker DP. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964
- ^ a b Farrar, Frederic W. (1878). Eternal Hope: Five Sermons Preached in Westminster Abbey, November and December, 1877. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company. pp. xvi and xxi.
- ^ a b c Bayne, Ronald (1912). Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co. . In
- ^ The Funeral of Mr Darwin, The Times, 27 April 1882. (Wikisource)
- ^ Montgomery, Bernard (1958). Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery. p. 20.
References
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). "Farrar, Frederic William". A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.
- Norman Vance. "Farrar, Frederic William (1831–1903)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33088. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
External links
- Works by Frederic William Farrar at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Frederic Farrar at Internet Archive
- Works by Frederic Farrar at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Frederic William Farrar papers, 1825-1904 at Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology