Walter Farrar

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Walter Farrar (1865 – 1916[1]) was an Anglican bishop in the first decades of the 20th century.[2]

Farrar was educated at Queen's College, Guyana,[3] and Keble College, Oxford, and ordained in 1888.[4][5] He began his ordained ministry at St Mary's East Coast in what was then British Guiana. Later he was the rector of Hawkchurch[6] and then acting warden of the Jamaica Church Theological College before his ordination to the episcopate as Bishop of Antigua.[7] After some time as the Archdeacon of St Francis, Quebec, he returned to the West Indies as Bishop of British Honduras in 1913.[8] In 1915 he became the vicar of Bognor Regis and died the following year.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ "Obituary Bishop Farrar", The Times, 9 December 1916; pg. 11; Issue 41346; col C
  2. ^ BRRAM
  3. ^ thePeerage.com
  4. ^ "Who was Who", 1897–2007, London, A & C Black, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  5. ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
  6. ^ The Times, 13 May 1898; pg. 12; Issue 35515; col D, Ecclesiastical Intelligence
  7. ^ The Times, 23 February 1905; pg. 9; Issue 37638; col A, New Bishop of Antigua
  8. ^ The Times, London, 12 November 1913; pg. 12; Issue 40367; col F, Ecclesiastical Intelligence. New Bishop of Honduras
  9. ^ Clergy of the Parish of Bognor
Church of England titles
Preceded by Bishop of Antigua
1905–1910 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Bishop of British Honduras
1913–1915 		Succeeded by
Edward Arthur Dunn


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