Adam Storey Farrar

Born in London on April 20, 1826, he was educated at King’s College London and at Queen’s College, Cambridge. He later became a fellow of Queen’s, then held church and academic posts that included professor of divinity and ecclesiastical history at Durham University and canon of Durham.

He is best remembered for works on the history of interpretation and belief, especially A Critical History of Free Thought in Reference to the Christian Religion and History of Interpretation. His writing often tried to meet modern doubt with careful scholarship, making him a notable voice in nineteenth-century religious thought.

He died on June 11, 1905. Contemporary reference sources describe him as a learned and influential church historian whose books connected university scholarship with the concerns of ordinary readers.