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Frederic William Farrar (1831 - 1903), often known as Dean Farrar, was a theological writer, born in Bombay, and educated at King William's College in the Isle of Man, London University and University of Cambridge, was for some years a master at Harrow, and from 1871-76 Master (headmaster) of Marlborough College. Leopold I 1831 (MDCCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1900 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... This article or section should be merged with Mumbai Mumbai (previously known as Bombay) is the worlds most populous conurbation, and is the sixth most populous agglomeration in the world. ... The crest of King Williams College. ... Senate House, designed by Charles Holden home to the universitys central administration offices and its library The University of London, founded in 1836, is a federation of colleges which together constitute one of the worlds largest universities. ... The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and has a reputation as one of the worlds most prestigious universities. ... Harrow College is the main community college of Harrow, London. ... 1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1876 (MDCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Marlborough College is a British independent boarding school in the county of Wiltshire. ...

He became successively Canon of Westminster and Rector of St. Margaret's, Archdeacon of Westminster and Dean of Canterbury. He was an eloquent preacher and a voluminous author, his writings including stories of school life, such as Eric, or, little by little and St. Winifred's, a Life of Christ, which had great popularity, a Life of St. Paul, and two historical romances. The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster, which is almost always referred to by its original name of Westminster Abbey, is a mainly Gothic church, on the scale of a cathedral (and indeed often mistaken for one), in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. ... The Dean of Canterbury is the head of the Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral in England. ... The school story is a genre of fiction, basic to much of the childrens literature of the twentieth century. ... Eric, or, Little by Little is the title of a book by Frederic W. Farrar, first edition 1858. ...

Farrar has a street named after him - Dean Farrar Street in Westminster, London. In 2007 the top two storeys of a building on this street collapsed, in the 2007 Dean Farrar Street collapse. Westminster is a district within the City of Westminster in London. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

External links

• Works by Frederic William Farrar at Project Gutenberg

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton. Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to digitize, archive, and distribute cultural works. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature is a collection of biographies of writers by John W. Cousin, published around 1910. ...