William John Ferrar

Born in 1868, William John Ferrar was an English writer and Church of England clergyman. Records for the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry project describe him as a poet, note that he was educated at Hertford College, Oxford, and identify him as vicar of St. Philip, Bethnal Green.

His writing seems to have crossed several genres. He published Sacred Poems in 1903, wrote the historical novel The Fall of the Grand Sarrasin, and later produced The Uncanonical Jewish Books, a short introduction to the Apocrypha and other Jewish writings. Taken together, those works suggest a writer equally interested in devotion, storytelling, and making religious history readable for a general audience.

Some later editions and catalog records also describe him as a late scholar of Hertford College and vicar of East Finchley, which fits the picture of a scholar-clergyman whose literary work grew out of both pastoral life and study. I couldn't confirm a reliable portrait from the sources I checked, so no profile image is included.