Joseph Farrow
Joseph Farrow (1652?–1692), was a nonconformist clergyman.
Life
Farrow was born at Boston, Lincolnshire, of ‘religious parents,’ and educated at the grammar school of that town. He was afterwards entered at Magdalene College, Cambridge, as a member of which he proceeded M.A.[1] On quitting the university he became private tutor in a family at Louth, Lincolnshire, for some years, during which time he refused the mastership of the newly erected free school at Brigg in the same county. He was episcopally ordained, and, after he had been successively chaplain to Lady Hussey of Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, and to Sir Richard Earle of Stragglethorpe, Lincolnshire, he returned to Boston and was curate there to Dr. Obadiah Howe until Howe's death in February 1683. He supplied Howe's place until the arrival of a new vicar.
From Boston he removed into the family of
References
- ^ "Farrow, Joseph (FRW669J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Farrow, Joseph". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.