Background
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 Saint Thomas"s and Guy"son
Education
In 1800 he returned to England, studied for two years in Edinburgh, and took the degree of Doctor of Medicine
Career
After the expedition failed he came back to London, and afterwards entered practice in the island of Barbados. At Aberdeen on 22 January 1806. He became licentiate of the College of Physicians of London on 31 March 1806, and began practice as a physician.
He was one of the founders of the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, to which he was physician for fifty years.
His portrait, by Thomas Phillips, Resident Advisor, was to be seen in the board-room of the Ophthalmic Hospital in Moorfields, London. He retired from practice in 1856, died on 7 May 1862, and is buried at Kensal Green.
Membership
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.