Background
Born in London on 20 April 1820, was son of Abraham Eccles Farrar, president of the Wesleyan conference, by his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Adam Storey of Leeds.
Born in London on 20 April 1820, was son of Abraham Eccles Farrar, president of the Wesleyan conference, by his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Adam Storey of Leeds.
Educated at the Liverpool Institute, he matriculated in 1844 at Saint Mary Hall, Oxford, obtaining a first class in the final classical school and a second in mathematics, and graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1850. and was elected Michel fellow of The Queen"s College. Ordained deacon in 1852 and priest in 1853, Farrar became tutor at Wadham College in 1855, and acted both as mathematical moderator and examiner in classics in 1856. He was appointed preacher at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall (1858) and Bampton lecturer (1862).
And became Bachelor of Divinity and Doctor of Divinity in 1864.
In 1864 Farrar was appointed professor at Durham, and in 1878 he became canon of the Durham Cathedral. He died at Durham on 11 June 1905, without issue.
In 1851 he was the first winner of the prize founded in memory of Thomas Arnold, with an essay on The Causes of the Greatness and Decay of the Town of Carthage, and in the following year proceeded Master of Arts In two successive years, 1853 and 1854, he won the Denyer prize for a theological essay, on The Doctrine of the Trinity, and Original Sin.
