Orders, Decorations and Medals

British War Medal 1914-20 (Rev. I. G. Farrar) nearly extremely fine £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The John Chidzey Collection.

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Ivor Granville Farrar was born on 14 September 1874, the son of the Very Revd. Frederic Farrar, Dean of Canterbury. He was educated at Westminster School, 1887-91, and graduated with a B.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1895 and gained an M.A. in 1899. He trained for the Clergy at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, 1896 and was ordained a Deacon at London for Canterbury in 1897 and ordained a Priest at Dover in 1899. He was appointed Curate of Walmer, Kent, 1897-1900 and St, Michael, Chester Square, 1900-03. Farrar was appointed to his first parish as Vicar of St. George, Millom with St. Luke, Haverigg, 1903-08; after which he was Perpetual Curate of Grange-over-Sands, 1908-16, then Curate of St. John, Fitzroy Square, London, 1923-27. During the war he served as Chaplain to the Y.M.C.A., entering the Italy theatre of war on 8 December 1916. He retired to Plas Hen, Dolgelley, Wales, and died on 28 June 1944. With copied research.