biography
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Farrar, Frederic William
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| lived:
| (1831–1903)
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| biography:
| British clergyman and writer, born in Mumbai (Bombay), W India. He was ordained in 1854, taught at Harrow, became headmaster of Marlborough (1871–6), honorary chaplain to Queen Victoria (1869–73), and later a chaplain-in-ordinary. He was made a canon of Westminster and rector of St Margaret's in 1876, archdeacon of Westminster in 1883, chaplain to the House of Commons in 1890, and Dean of Canterbury in 1895. His theological writings were many, but he is chiefly remembered for the best seller, Eric, or Little by Little (1858), one of several school stories. |
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