Author Farrar Frederic William

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Frederic William Farrar (1831 - 1903), often known as Dean Farrar, was a theological writer. Farrar was born in Bombay, India and educated at King William's College in 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 1871-76 Master (headmaster) of Marlborough College. He became successively Canon of Westminster and Rector of St. Margaret's, Archdeacon of Westminster and Dean of Canterbury. 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, a Life of Christ (1874), which had great popularity, a Life of St. Paul (1879), and two historical romances. His works were translated into many languages, especially Life of Christ. He was a believer in universal reconciliation and thought that all people would eventually be saved, a view he prom

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oted in a series of 1877 sermons.[3] He originated the term "abominable fancy" for the longstanding Christian idea that the eternal punishment of the damned would entertain the saved.[4] Farrar published Eternal Hope in 1878 and Mercy and Judgment in 1881, both of which defend Christian universalism at length.[5][6] His daughter, Maud, was the mother of World War II British field marshal Bernard Montgomery. Farrar has a street named after him - Dean Farrar Street in Westminster, London. In 2007 the top two storeys of a building on this street collapsed, in the 2007 Dean Farrar Street collapse. This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J. M. Dent & sons; New York, E. P. Dutton.

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