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b. 1868
An English clergyman and writer, he moved easily between poetry, history, and early Christian scholarship. His books range from devotional verse to accessible studies of apocryphal and early church texts.
Born in 1868, William John Ferrar was an English poet and Church of England clergyman who was educated at Hertford College, Oxford. Sources identify him as the author of Sacred Poems and note that he served as vicar of St. Philip, Bethnal Green, in London.
His writing was notably wide-ranging. Alongside poetry, he produced works on early Christianity and Jewish apocryphal literature, including The Early Christian Books, The Uncanonical Jewish Books, and a translation of The Assumption of Moses. Other records also connect him with historical and imaginative writing such as The Fall of the Grand Sarrasin.
Some sources list his life dates as 1868-1945, though the birth year is the clearest detail consistently confirmed here. Taken together, the record is of a writer who wanted serious religious history and literature to be readable for a general audience.