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词条 Frederic Farrar
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  1. Biography

  2. Family

  3. Works

     Fiction 

  4. Notes

  5. References

  6. External links

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Frederic William Farrar (Bombay, 7 August 1831 – Canterbury, 22 March 1903) was a cleric of the Church of England (Anglican), schoolteacher and author. He was a pallbearer at the funeral of Charles Darwin in 1882. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles secret society. He was the Archdeacon of Westminster from 1883 to 1894, and Dean of Canterbury Cathedral from 1895 until his death in 1903.

Biography

Farrar was born in Bombay, India, and educated at King William's College on the Isle of Man, King's College London and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] At Cambridge he won the Chancellor's Gold Medal for poetry in 1852.[2] He was for some years a master at Harrow School and, from 1871 to 1876, the headmaster of Marlborough College.

Farrar spent much of his career associated with Westminster Abbey. He was successively a canon there, rector of St Margaret's (the church next door), archdeacon of the Abbey. He later served as Dean of Canterbury;[3] and chaplain in ordinary, i.e. attached to the Royal Household.[4] He was an eloquent preacher and a voluminous author, his writings including stories of school life, such as Eric, or, Little by Little and St. Winifred's about life in a boys' boarding school in late Victorian England, and two historical romances.

Farrar was a classics scholar and a comparative philologist, who applied Charles Darwin's ideas of branching descent to the relationships between languages, engaging in a protracted debate with the anti-Darwinian linguist Max Müller.[5] While Farrar was never convinced by the evidence for evolution in biology, he had no theological objections to the idea and urged that it be considered on purely scientific grounds.[6] On Darwin's nomination, Farrar was elected to the Royal Society in 1866 for his philological work. When Darwin died in 1882, Farrar helped get the church's permission for him to be buried in Westminster Abbey and preached the sermon at his funeral.[6]

Farrar's religious writings included Life of Christ (1874), which had great popularity, and Life of St. Paul (1879). His works were translated into many languages, especially Life of Christ.

Farrar believed that some could be saved after death.[8][7] He originated the term "abominable fancy" for the longstanding Christian idea that the eternal punishment of the damned would entertain the saved.[8] Farrar published Eternal Hope in 1878 and Mercy and Judgment in 1881, both of which defend his position on hell at length.[9][12]

Farrar was accused of universalism, but he denies this belief with great certainty. In 1877 Farrar in an introduction to five sermons he wrote, in the preface he attacks the idea that he holds to universalism. He also dismisses any accusation from those who would say otherwise. He says, "I dare not lay down any dogma of Universalism, partly because it is impossible for us to estimate the hardening effect obstinate persistence in evil, and the power of the human will to resist the love of God."[10]

In April 1882, he was one of ten pallbearers at the funeral of Charles Darwin in Westminster Abbey; the others were: The Duke of Devonshire, The Duke of Argyll, The Earl of Derby, Mr. J. Russell Lowell, Mr. W. Spottiswoode, Sir Joseph Hooker, Mr. A. R. Wallace, Professor Huxley, and Sir John Lubbock.[14][11]

Family

On 1 August 1860 at St Leonard's Church, Exeter, he married Lucy Mary Cardew; they had five sons and five daughters:[14]

  • Reginald Anstruther Farrar (1861-)
  • Evelyn Lucy Farrar (1862-)
  • Hilda Cardew Farrar (1863-1908)
  • Maud Farrar (1864-1949)
  • Eric Maurice Farrar (1866-)
  • Sibyl Farrar (1867-)
  • Cyril Lytton Farrar (1869-)
  • Lilian Farrar (1870-)
  • Frederic Percival Farrar (1871-)
  • Ivor Granville Farrar (1874-1944) (born Bernard Farrar)

The first eight were born at Harrow; the last two were born at Marlborough.

He allowed his daughter, Maud, to become engaged to Henry Montgomery at 14 and marry at 16. Farrar was then archdeacon of St Margaret's and Montgomery was the curate; Montgomery went on to become Bishop of Tasmania. Their children included the World War II hero "Monty", Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.[12]

Farrar's son Reginald published his biography in 1902.[6] Farrar died on 22 March 1903, and was buried in the cloister of the Canterbury Cathedral.[13]

Farrar has a street named after him – Dean Farrar Street in Westminster, London. There is also a memorial to him at the church of St Margaret's, Westminster by the sculptor Nathaniel Hitch.

Works

  • [https://archive.org/details/essayonoriginofl00farr An Essay on the Origin of Language] (1860)
  • [https://archive.org/details/chaptersoflangua00farriala Chapters on Language] (1865)
  • [https://archive.org/details/lifeofchrist00farriala Life of Christ] (1874)
  • [https://archive.org/details/eternalhopefives00farruoft Eternal Hope] (1878)
  • The Vow of the Nazarite (1879)
  • [https://archive.org/details/mercyandjudgeme00farrgoog Mercy and Judgement] (1881)
  • [https://archive.org/details/lifeworkofstpaul00farr Life and Works of St. Paul] (1879)
  • [https://archive.org/details/historyinterpre02farrgoog History of Interpretation] (1886)
  • [https://archive.org/details/livesoffatherssk01farruoft Lives of the Fathers Volume 1] (1889)
  • [https://archive.org/details/livesoffatherssk00farruoft Lives of the Fathers Volume 2] (1889)
  • [https://archive.org/details/MN41779ucmf_6 The Voice from Sinai] (1892)
  • The Bible: Its Meaning and Supremacy (1897)
  • The Early Days of Christianity (unknown date)

Fiction

  • Eric, or Little by Little, a school story (1858)
  • Julian Home, a college story (1859)
  • [https://archive.org/details/FW_Farrar_St_Winifreds St Winifred's, or The World of School] (1862)
  • [https://archive.org/details/darknessdawnorsc00farrrich Darkness and Dawn, or Scenes in the Days of Nero] (1891)
  • Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom (1895)

Truths to live by (1890)

Notes

1. ^{{acad|id=FRR849FW|name=Farrar, Frederic William}}
2. ^{{cite book|title=A Complete Collection of the English Poems which Have Obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge|publisher=W. Metcalfe|location=Cambridge|url=https://books.google.com/books/pdf/A_Complete_Collection_of_the_English_Poe.pdf?id=Gw6GyHofIIAC&output=pdf|author=University of Cambridge|format=PDF|year=1859|accessdate=1 October 2008}}
3. ^Crockford's Clerical Directory 1898 p403: London, Horace Cox, 1898
4. ^A Famous Churchman, in the Red River Prospector, published 2 May 1901; retrieved 17 May 2014
5. ^{{cite book|last=Alter|first=Stephen G.|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press|title=Darwinism and the Linguistic Image: Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the Nineteenth Century|year=1991|place=Baltimore and London}}
6. ^{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/lifefredericwil00farrgoog|last=Farrar|first=Reginald|title=The life of Frederic William Farrar, D.D., F.R.S., etc., sometime dean of Canterbury|year=1902|publisher=T.Y. Crowell|place=New York}}
7. ^The Eternal Fate of Unbelievers, Part II, "The Witness of Church History (2): The Modern Period", excerpted and adapted from Hell on Trial: The Case for Eternal Punishment by Robert A. Peterson (Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing), 1995, Extract by Garry J. Moes.
8. ^The Decline of Hell: Seventeenth-Century Discussions of Eternal Torment. Walker DP. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964
9. ^F. W. Farrar. Mercy and Judgment. 1881.
10. ^"Eternal Hope" by Rev. Frederic W. Farrar,(New York:E.P. Dutton & Company, 1878), xvi and xxi.
11. ^The Funeral of Mr Darwin, The Times, 27 April 1882. (Wikisource)
12. ^{{cite book|last1=Montgomery|first1=Bernard|title=Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery|date=1958|page=20|accessdate=28 September 2017}}
13. ^{{cite DNB12|wstitle= Farrar, Frederic William |first=Ronald |last=Bayne}}

References

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External links

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  • Frederic William Farrar papers, 1825-1904 at Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology
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