John Richard Farre

John Richard Farre
Islington, Middlesex, England
Nationality	English
Known for	Co-founder of London Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye
Children	Frederic John Farre, Arthur Farre
Scientific career
Fields	Anatomy, ophthalmology
Institutions	St Thomas' Hospital

John Richard Farre (31 January 1775 – 7 May 1862) was an English physician.

Early life

The son of Richard John Farre, a medical practitioner, he was born on 31 January 1775 in Barbados. After school education in the island he studied medicine under his father, and in 1792 came to England and studied medicine at the school then formed by the united hospitals of St. Thomas's and Guy's. At the end of 1793 he became a member of the corporation of surgeons, and went with Mr. Foster, surgeon to Guy's Hospital, to France in the Earl of Moira's expedition. After the expedition failed he came back to London, and afterwards entered practice in the island of Barbados.

Career

In 1800 he returned to England, studied for two years in Edinburgh, and took the degree of M.D. at Aberdeen on 22 January 1806. He became licentiate of the

, to which he was physician for fifty years.

His portrait, by Thomas Phillips, R.A., was to be seen in the board-room of the Ophthalmic Hospital in Moorfields, London.

Works

He edited James's book on Arterial and Secondary Haemorrhage in 1805 and

, to which they were presented by his sons.

Family and later life

He retired from practice in 1856, died on 7 May 1862, and is buried at Kensal Green. His house was in Charterhouse Square, and he had two sons who attained distinction in medicine, Frederic John Farre and Arthur Farre.

References

• "Farre, John Richard" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

Notes

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Farre, John Richard". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.