Walter Farrer

Memorial in Wells Cathedral.

Walter Farrer (18 May 1862 – 19 December 1934) was a British Church of England priest, most notably Archdeacon of Wells from 1917 until his death.[1]

Farrer was educated at Balliol College, Oxford[2] and Wells Theological College. He was ordained deacon in 1886, and priest in 1888.[3] After a curacy in Leeds he became Rector of Wincanton in 1889; then Vicar of Chard, Somerset in 1897. He was then vicar of St Cuthbert, Wells from 1916 to 1919.[4]

References

  1. ^ Archdeacon Farrer The Times (London, England), Friday, Dec 21, 1934; pg. 17; Issue 46943
  2. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Farrer, Walter" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  3. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1898 p 451: London, Horace Cox, 1898
  4. ^ FARRER, Ven. Walter’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016 ; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 8 Oct 2017
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1917–1934
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Matthew White
Ridley
(1745–1813)
Sarah Colborne
(1755–1806)
James Farrer
(1751–1820)
Frances Loxham
(c. 1760–1826)
Matthew White Ridley
(1778–1836)
Nicholas William
Ridley-Colborne
(1779–1854)
Henrietta Elizabeth Ridley
(1781–1853)
James William Farrer
(1785–1863)
Thomas Farrer
(1787–1833)
Cecilia Willis
(1794–1867)
Oliver William Farrer
(1819–1876)
Emily Charlotte
Hannah Cooke
(1825–1902)
Matthew Thomas Farrer
(1816–1889)
Mary Louisa Anson
(1818–1856)
Thomas Henry Farrer
(1819–1899)
Frances Erskine
(1825–1870)
Mabel Gertrude Smith
(1863–1946)
Bryan Farrer
(1858–1944)
Walter Farrer
(1862–1934)
James Anson Farrer
(1849–1925)
Elizabeth Georgina
Reynell Pack
(1853–1937)
Matthew George Farrer
(1852–1928)
Horace Darwin
(1851–1928)
Emma Cecilia
"Ida" Farrer
(1854–1946)
Claude Erskine Farrer
(1862–1890)
Noel Maitland Farrer
(1867–1929)
Mabel Elizabeth Elliot
(1871–1947)
Marjorie Laura Pollock
(1895–1981)
Walter Leslie Farrer
(1900–1984)
Reginald John Farrer
(1880–1920)
Evelyn Mary
Spring-Rice
(1863–1898)
Thomas Cecil Farrer
(1859–1940)
Evangeline Knox
(1871–1968)
Charles Matthew
Farrer
(born 1929)
Cecil Claude
Farrer
(1893–1948)
Frances Margaret
Farrer
(1895–1977)
Oliver Thomas
Farrer
(1904–1954)
Anthony Thomas
Farrer
(1910–1964)
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