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HE VEN. FREDERIC WILLIAM FARRAR, D.D., F.R.S., Archdeacon of Westminster, the son of the Rev. C. R. Farrar, Rector of Sidcup, was born in Bombay, and received his education at King William's College in the Isle of Man, and King's College, London, from which he passed to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he had a distinguished career. In 1854 he was ordained, and for many years was an Assistant Master at Harrow, where he wrote his well-known. book for boys, "Eric"; after which he held, with great distinction, the post of Head Master of Marlborough, during which he published "The Life of Christ," which ran through twelve editions in a single year. In 1876 he was appointed Canon of Westminster and Rector of St. Margaret's. In 1883 he was created Archdeacor of Westminster, which is, however, a post to which only a nominal salary is attached. Archdeacon Farrar has taken a prominent part in temperance reform and in many other philanthropic works.