| Authorised form of name | Farrar; Frederick William (1831 - 1903) |
| Other forms of name | Frederic William |
| Dates | 1831 - 1903 |
| Place of birth | The fort at Bombay, India |
| Date of birth | 07 August 1831 |
| Date of death | 22/03/1903 |
| Dates and places | Burial:
The cloister-green of Canterbury cathedral, Kent |
| Occupation | Clergyman, Church of England |
| Activity | Education:
King's College, London; Trinity College, Cambridge. BA (1854), MA (1857), DD (1874)
Career:
Came to England (aged 3 years); Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Honorary Fellow of King's College, London; ordained deacon (1854) and Priest (1857); Master, Harrow School (1855-1870); Headmaster, Marlborough School (1871-1876); visited Palestine (1870); published 'Life of Christ' (1874); Canon of Westminster (1876-1895); Dean of Canterbury (1895-1903); suffered from muscular atrophy and died after a long illness
Memberships:
Ethnological Society
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 07/06/1866 |
| Relationships | Second son of Charles Pinhorn Farrar, chaplain of the Church Missionary Society, and his wife Caroline Turner; married (1860) Lucy Mary, daughter of Frederick Cardew of the HEIC; five sons, five daughters |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Authority:
Altname from DSB
References:
Sir Brian Pippard, FRS, 'Schoolmaster-Fellows and the campaign for science education' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 63-81, plate
Vanity Fair 10 October 1891 |
| Royal Society code | NA6275 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| NLB/11/632 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 20 August 1895 |
| NLB/9/618 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Venerable Archdeacon Farrar, Fellow of the Royal Society | 18 June 1894 |
| NLB/11/495 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Very Reverend Dean Frederick William Farrar, Fellow of the Royal Society, 17 Dean's Yard, Westminster, S.W. | 12 July 1895 |
| NLB/11/368 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Reverend Frederick William Farrar, Fellow of the Royal Society, Dean of Canterbury, 17 Dean's Yard, Westminster, S.W. | 15 June 1895 |
| NLB/9/766 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Venerable Archdeacon Frederick William Farrar, Fellow of the Royal Society | 11 July 1894 |
| MS/928/2/63 | Postcard from Frederic William Farrar, House of Commons, to Charles Vernon Boys | n.d. |
| EC/1866/03 | Farrar, Frederick William: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |