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Dean Frederic William Farrar (Bombay, 7 August 1831 – Canterbury, 22 March 1903) was a senior-ranking cleric of the Church of England, schoolteacher and author. He was a pallbearer at the funeral of Charles Darwin in 1882.
William Farrar was born before April 28, 1583, [2] the date of his christening, in Croxton, Lincolnshire, England. [3] He was the 3rd son of John Farrar of Croxton [1] and London, Esquire, a wealthy merchant and landowner with various holdings in West Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Hertfordshire, [4] and Cecily Kelke, an heiress [5] and direct descendant of Edward III of England. [6]
William Farrar may refer to: William Farrar (American football), American football official, player and coach; William H. Farrar (1826–1873), mayor of Portland, Oregon;
William Farr was born in Kenley, Shropshire, to poor parents.He was effectively adopted by a local squire, Joseph Pryce, when Farr and his family moved to Dorrington.In 1826 he took a job as a dresser (surgeon's assistant) in the Salop Infirmary in Shrewsbury and served a nominal apprenticeship to an apothecary.
William Farrar Smith (February 17, 1824 – February 28, 1903), known as "Baldy" Smith, was a Union general in the American Civil War, notable for attracting the extremes of glory and blame. He was praised for his gallantry in the Seven Days Battles and the Battle of Antietam , but was demoted for professional and political reasons after the ...
William Farrar Jr. (1627 - January 1678) was a Virginia planter and politician who represented Henrico County in the House of Burgesses (1660-1676). [1] [2] Early life
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William Farrar owned 700 acres in Henrico County in 1704, probably including Farrar's Island, but in that year his brother Thomas owned 1444 acres in the same county, probably including 550 acres on Farrar's Island that he sold to Thomas Randolph of Tuckahoe in 1627, about the time that this man's eldest son and heir, William Farrar IV sold 686 acres to the same man, and moved to what in that ...