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Walter Farrer (18 May 1862 – 19 December 1934) was a British
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Walter Farrer (18 May 1862 – 19 December 1934) was a British Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britai ...
priest, most notably Archdeacon of Wells
The Archdeacon of Wells has been a senior clergy position in the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells sin the English reformation, before which it was part of the Roman Catholic Church. The post, having oversight over the archdeaconry of We ...
from 1917 until his death.
Farrer was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and Wells Theological College
Wells Theological College began operation in 1840 within the Cathedral Close of Wells Cathedral. It was one of several new colleges created in the nineteenth century to cater not just for non-graduates, but for graduates from the old universiti ...
. He was ordained
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deacon
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in 1886, and priest
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in 1888. After a curacy
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in Leeds
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he became Rector
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*Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations
*Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...
of Wincanton
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in 1889; then Vicar
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of Chard, Somerset in 1897. He was then vicar of St Cuthbert, Wells from 1916 to 1919.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 201accessed 8 Oct 2017
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References
1862 births Archdeacons of Wells 1934 deaths Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Alumni of Wells Theological College Freemasons of the United Grand Lodge of England {{Canterbury-archdeacon-stub