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* F ARRANT. 469 master of the choristers at Saint George's Chapel, Windsor, and in 1569 became gentleman of the Chapel Royal. Among the most admired of his compositions are the anthems "Call to Remem- brance" and "Hide Not Thou Thy Face" in the collection of Barnard and Boyce. The beautiful anthem credited lu him, "Lord, for Thy Tender Mercy's Sake," is probably by a composer of an earlier date. FAR'RAR, Eliza Ware (Rotch) (1791- 1S70). An American author. She was born in Flanders, while her parents were traveling in Europe. She became well known as the author of The Children's Robinson Crusoe, The Story of Lafayette, and The Life of Howard. The Young Lad if s Friend (1837) also was exceedingly popu- lar. Her later years were spent in Springfield, Mass. She married Prof. John Farrar of Har- vard College. FARRAR, Frederic William (1831-1903). A distinguished English clergyman, born at Bom- bay, India. He studied at the University of Lon- don and at Trinity College, Cambridge, was or- dained deacon in 1854, and priest in 1857. For several years he was an assistant master at. Har- row, and from 1871 to 187(i was head-master of Marlborough College. In 1870 he was appointed a canon of Westminster Abbey and rector of Saint Margaret's. He became Archdeacon of Westminster in 1883. chaplain of the House of Commons in 1890. and Dean of Canterbury in 1895. He was Hulscan lecturer at Cambridge in 1870, Bampton lecturer at Oxford in 1885, and in the latter year visited the United States. A popular figure among the English clergy, he has been prominently connected with numerous phil- anthropic enterprises. His literary work is ex- tensive and varied, including volumes of fiction, philological and theological studies, comment- aries, biography, history, and didactic treatises. From a long list of titles may be cited Eric (1858); The Origin of Language (1860) ; Chap- ters on Language (1865); A Lecture on Public School Education (1867): Essays on a Liberal Education (2d ed. 1868) ; Seekers After God (1869); The Witness of History to Christ (1871), the Hulsean Lectures for 1870; a much- read Life of Christ (2 vols., 1874; 12th ed. in the same year); a Life of Saint Paul (1879); The Early Days of Christianity (2 vols., 1882) ; Eter- nal Hope (1878). in refutation of the extreme doctrine of eternal punishment ; The Bible, its Meaning and Supremacy (1897), an investiga- tion of the subject of inspiration ; Texts Ex- plained (1899) ; and The Life of Lives (1899). FARRE, far. Jean Joseph (1816-87). A French general, born at Valence (Drome). He commanded the pioneer corps in the army of Occupation at Rome in 1859. Upon the outbreak of the Franco-German War he was director of the fortifications of Arras, and after the downfall of the Empire he was intrusted with the organiza- tion of the force in the northern departments, which subsequently formed the divisions com- manded by General Bourbaki. Farre succeeded to the chief command of the three divisions of the Army of the North on November 19, 1870. He was, however, compelled to abandon his de- fensive position before Amiens by General Man- teuffel (November 27). and was succeeded by General Faidherbe. In 1875 he was appointed general of division, and in 1880 became Minister FARREN. of War, in which position he removed all promi- nent officers suspected of favoring the Legitimist or the Bonapartist cause;. Bui his appointments, as well as preparations for the war against Tunis, proved s.i unsatisfactory that he was super- seded (November 14, 1881). FAB/BEN, Elizabeth (c.1759-1829). Anoted English actress, who became in 1797 Countess of Derby. She was the daughter of an itinerant actor named George Farren, and appeared upon the stage when a child. About 1771 Bhe obtained an engagement under Younger, at Liver] 1, where she first played Lady Townley in The Pro voked Husband. She first appeared in London at, the Haymarket in 1777, taking the part of Mi-- Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer. In the fall of 1778 she appeared at Drury Lane, where she became established at first in tragedy, and, after the departure of Mrs. Abingdon in 1782, as leading lady in comedy. She was very popu- lar, Charles James Fox being one of her admirers. She is best known for her impersonations of fine ladies in the comedy of high life. Among her favorite parts were Clarinda in The Suspicious Husband, Lady Betty Modish in The Care- less Husband, Lady Emily Gayvllle in The Heiress, Julia in The Rivals, and Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal. In this last role she made her final appearance April 8, 1797. She had previously been received in aristocratic so- ciet} 7, and on May 1st of that year she was mar- ried to the Earl of Derby, who had long been devoted to her. She died at Knowsley Park, Lan- cashire. Boaden's remark upon her career is well known, that after her retirement comedy de- generated into farce. There is a somewhat coarse work called Memoirs of the Present Countess of Derby, Late Miss Farren, by "Petronius Arbiter" (London, 1797), to which two crude responses were published by more friendly pens. Consult : Geneste, History of the Stage (Bath, 1832); Doran, Annals of the Stage, ed. by Lowe (Lon- don, 1888) ; Gait, Lives of the Players (London, 1831); and Lowe, in Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States, ed. by Matthews and Hutton (New York, 1886). FARREN, William (1786-1861). An Eng- lish actor, famous especially for his acting of old men's parts in high comedy. He was the son of a prosperous actor of the same name, who lived in London, but he made his debut at Plym- outh, under his brother's management. For some time thereafter he lived in Dublin, till in 181S he came to London and made his appearance at the Covent Garden Theatre, as Sir Peter Teazle. His Lord Ogleby, Sir Anthony Absolute, and Sir Andrew Aguechcek followed soon after. Having left Covent Garden in 1828, he appeared for a number of years at Drury Lane, where, in addi- tion to some of his earlier favorites, he added the parts of Polonius, Sir Francis Gripe in The Busybody, Kent in King Lear, and numerous others. About 1840 he became one of the man- agers of the Haymarket, where he had occasional- ly played before, and there in 1843 he produced his Old Parr, an extraordinary depiction of old age. From 1850 to 1853 he was lessee of the Olympic Theatre. His farewell appearance was at the Havmarket in 1855. He was of distin- guished appearance and unusual power of facial expression; some critics noted in him a lack of