![]() It reveals considerable powers of imagination and eloquence, and was partly inspired by a personal knowledge of the sacred localities depicted. The Life of Christ, which was published in 1874, speedily passed through a great number of editions, and is still in much demand. His Hulsean Lectures were published in 1870 under the title of The Witness of History to Christ. It was by his theological works, however, that Farrar attained his greatest popularity. He edited Essays on a Liberal Education in 1868 and published Seekers after God in the Sunday Library (1869). He had already published a work on The Origin of Language, and followed it up by a series of works on grammar and scholastic philology, including Chapters on Language (1865) Greek Grammar Rules (1865) Greek Syntax (1866) and Families of Speech (1869). Farrar began his literary labours with the publication of his schoolboy story Eric in 1858, succeeded in the following year by Julian Home and Lyrics of Life, and in 1862 by St. degree in 1874, the first under the new regulations at Cambridge. In 1876 he was appointed canon of Westminster and rector of St Margaret’s, Westminster. In 1871 he was appointed headmaster of Marlborough College, and in the following year he became chaplain-in-ordinary to the queen. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1864, university preacher in 1868, honorary chaplain to the queen in 1869 and Hulsean lecturer in 1870. In November 1855 he was appointed an assistant-master at Harrow, where he remained for fifteen years. On leaving the university Farrar became an assistant-master under G.E.L. He was elected fellow of Trinity College in 1856. In addition to other college prizes he gained the chancellor’s medal for the English prize poem on the search for Sir John Franklin in 1852, the Le Bas prize and the Norrisian prize. ![]() In 1854 he took his degree as fourth junior optime, and fourth in the first class of the classical tripos. He proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, in October 1851, and in the following year took the degree of B.A. Maurice he was led to the study of Coleridge, whose writings had a profound influence upon his faith and opinions. In 1847 he entered King’s College, London. His early education was received in King William’s College, Castletown, Isle of Man, a school whose external surroundings are reproduced in his popular schoolboy tale, Eric or, Little by Little. It is not as detailed as The Life of Saint Paul, also by Farrar, which book is profusely illustrated.įARRAR, FREDERIC WILLIAM (1831-1903), English divine, was born on the 7th of August 1831, in the Fort of Bombay, where his father, afterwards vicar of Sidcup, Kent, was then a missionary. The book is well laid out and is easy to follow, despite the use of many long words which are no longer familiar. This book, The Life of Christ, is a superbly scholarly work, by an extremely able author who was not only a theologian and a senior churchman in the Church of England (Archdeacon of Westminster and Chaplain-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria), but also a senior schoolmaster, having in his time been Headmaster of Marlborough College.
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