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John Martindale Farrar

A nineteenth-century Church of England clergyman, John Martindale Farrar wrote thoughtful sermons on faith, public life, and Christian observance. His best-known surviving work, The Sabbath, reflects on the proposed Sunday opening of London’s Crystal Palace.

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The Sabbath : a sermon preached in Holy Trinity Church, Hurdsfield, on Sunday Evening, January 30, 1853, in reference to the proposed opening of the Crystal Palace on the Lord's day

The Sabbath : a sermon preached in Holy Trinity Church, Hurdsfield, on Sunday Evening, January 30, 1853, in reference to the proposed opening of the Crystal Palace on the Lord's day

by John Martindale Farrar

About the author

John Martindale Farrar earned a B.A. from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1849, followed by an M.A. in 1853. He later studied at St Mary Hall, Oxford, entering his name in 1865 at the age of 37.

Farrar served as curate of Hurdsfield in Cheshire during the early 1850s. In 1853, he published The Sabbath, a sermon preached at Holy Trinity Church, Hurdsfield, in response to plans to open the Crystal Palace on Sundays.

His later church appointments included vicar of Burgh with Winthorpe in Lincolnshire from 1856 to 1857 and rector of Broughton Pogis in Oxfordshire from 1861 to 1867. Surviving records also identify him as a correspondent of the scholar Philip Bliss.