Austin Farrer
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The Reverend Austin Farrer FBA |
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| Warden of Keble College, Oxford | |
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In office 1960–1968 |
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| Preceded by | Eric Abbott |
| Succeeded by | Dennis Nineham |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Austin Marsden Farrer 1 October 1904 Hampstead, London, England |
| Died | 29 December 1968 (aged 64) |
| Resting place | Holywell Cemetery, Oxford |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | English |
| Spouse(s) | Katharine Farrer |
| Children | One |
| Education | St Paul's School, London |
| Alma mater |
Balliol College, Oxford Ripon College Cuddesdon |
| Profession | Clergyman and academic |
Austin Marsden Farrer, FBA (/ˈfærər/; 1 October 1904 – 29 December 1968) was an English theologian and philosopher. His activity in philosophy, theology, and spirituality led many to consider him the outstanding figure of 20th-century Anglicanism. He served as Warden of Keble College, Oxford from 1960 to 1968.
Farrer was born 11 October 1904, the only son of the three children of Augustine and Evangeline Farrer, in Hampstead, London, England. His father was a Baptist minister and Farrer was brought up in that faith. He went to St Paul's School, in London where he gained a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford. Encouraged by his father to value scholarship, he nevertheless found the divisions within the Baptist church dispiriting, and while at Oxford he became an Anglican. Finding his spiritual home at St Barnabas church in Oxford, his theology and his spirituality became profoundly Anglo-Catholic, although centred on the Book of Common Prayer. After gaining a first in Greats, he went up to Cuddesdon Theological College where he trained with the future Archbishop of Canterbury, Michael Ramsey. He served a curacy in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, after which he was invited to become chaplain and tutor at St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1931 (a post he held until 1935).
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