Walter Farrar

Walter Farrar (1865 – 1916^[1]) was an Anglican bishop in the first decades of the 20th century.^[2]

Farrar was educated at Queen's College, Guyana,^[3] and Keble College, Oxford, and ordained in 1888.^[4][5] He began his ordained ministry at St Mary’s East Coast in what was then British Guiana. Later he was the rector of Hawkchurch^[6] and then acting warden of the Jamaica Church Theological College before his ordination to the episcopate as Bishop of Antigua.^[7] After some time as the Archdeacon of St Francis, Quebec, he returned to the West Indies as Bishop of British Honduras in 1913.^[8] In 1915 he became the vicar of Bognor Regis and died the following year.^[9]

References

1. "Obituary Bishop Farrar", The Times, 9 December 1916; pg. 11; Issue 41346; col C
2. BRRAM
3. thePeerage.com
4. “Who was Who”, 1897–2007, London, A & C Black, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
5. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
6. The Times, 13 May 1898; pg. 12; Issue 35515; col D, Ecclesiastical Intelligence
7. The Times, 23 February 1905; pg. 9; Issue 37638; col A, New Bishop of Antigua
8. The Times, London, 12 November 1913; pg. 12; Issue 40367; col F, Ecclesiastical Intelligence. New Bishop Of Honduras
9. Clergy of the Parish of Bognor