Adam Storey Farrar, DD (1826–1905) was an English churchman and academic, Professor of Divinity and Ecclesiastical History at the

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from 1864.

Life

Born in London on 20 April 1820, he was son of Abraham Eccles Farrar, president of the Wesleyan conference, by his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Adam Storey of Leeds. Educated at the

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, he matriculated in 1844 at St. Mary Hall, Oxford, obtaining a first class in the final classical school and a second in mathematics, and graduating B.A. in 1850. In 1851 he was the first winner of the prize founded in memory of

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, with an essay on ''The Causes of the Greatness and Decay of the Town of Carthage'', and in the following year proceeded M.A. and was elected Michel fellow of

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. In two successive years, 1853 and 1854, he won the Denyer prize for a theological essay, on ''The Doctrine of the Trinity'', and ''Original Sin''. Ordained deacon in 1852 and priest in 1853, Farrar became tutor at

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in 1855, and acted both as mathematical moderator and examiner in classics in 1856. He was appointed preacher at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall (1858) and

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(1862); and became B.D. and D.D. in 1864. In 1864 Farrar was appointed professor at Durham, and in 1878 he became canon of

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. He was elected an

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in late 1902. Farrar married in 1864 Sarah Martha Wood (1824–1905), daughter of Robert Wood, a Wesleyan minister. He died at Durham on 11 June 1905, without issue.

Works

While at Oxford Farrar published his major work, ''Science in Theology, Sermons before the University of Oxford'', in 1859, followred by ''A Critical History of Free Thought'', the

Bampton Lectures The Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford, England, were founded by a bequest of John Bampton. They have taken place since 1780. They were a series of annual lectures; since the turn of the 20th century they have sometimes been biennial ...

in 1862. In the former he sought "to bring some of the discoveries and methods of the physical and moral sciences to bear upon theoretic questions of theology".

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Farrar, Adam Storey 1826 births 1905 deaths 19th-century English Anglican priests Fellows of the Queen's College, Oxford Fellows of Wadham College, Oxford Academics of Durham University