FARR

William . b. Kenley, Shropshire 30 Nov. 1807; studied medicine in Paris 1829–31; L.S.A. 1832; practised in London 1833–38; compiler of abstracts in registrar general’s office 1838; an a istant comr. for censuses of 1851 and 1861 and a comr. for that of 1871; wrote greater part of the reports on each census; F.S.S. 1839, treasurer 1855–67, vice-pres. 1869–70, pres. 1871–2; F.R.S. 7 June 1855 to 1882; C.B. 10 April 1880; gold medallist of British A ociation 1880; author of A medical guide to Nice 1841 and of many papers in the Lancet and other periodicals. d. 78 Ports down road, Maida Vale, London 14 April 1883. Biographical notice of W. Farr by F. A. C. Hare 1883; W. Farr’s Vital Statistics 1885 with biographical sketch by N. A. Humphreys, portrait . FARRAR, Rev. John ( youngest son of Rev. John Farrar, Wesley an minister, who d. 1837 ). b. Alnwick 29 July 1802; Wesley an min. Aug. 1822; resident minister succe ively at Sheffield, Huddersfield, Macclesfield and London; cla ical tutor at Wesley an theological institution, Richmond, Surrey 1843–58; governor and chaplain of Woodhouse Grove school near Leeds 1858–68; governor of Head in gley college, Leeds 1868–76; pres. of Wesley an conference at Birmingham 1854 and at Burslem 1870; author of The proper names of the Bible 1839, 2 ed. 1844; A biblical and theological dictionary illustrative of the Old and New Testament 1851 and 3 other books. d. Head in gley, Leeds 19 Nov. 1884. bur. Abney Park cemetery, London 25 Nov. Slugg’s Woodhouse Grove school (1885) pp. 14, 79–84, 135, 257; I.L.N. 6 Aug. 1870 p. 149, portrait .