John Farthing (bishop)
{{Short description|Canadian Anglican bishop (1861–1947)}}
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John Cragg Farthing (13 December 1861 – 6 May 1947) was the Anglican Bishop of Montreal for 30 years during the first half of the twentieth century.[https://archive.today/20120907073806/http://www.montreal.anglican.ca/z2bsp/bsp_past.htm List of Anglican Bishops of Montreal]
Early life and education
John Cragg Farthing was born in Toronto to an upper-class Anglican family. He had a sister Ann Cragg Farthing. He was educated at Caius College, Cambridge, England.{{acad|id=FRTN882JC|name=Farthing, John Cragg}} Ann Farthing became an Anglican missionary, working in the United States territory of Alaska for years during the early 20th century in the Yukon interior.
Clergyman
After Farthing's return to Canada from Cambridge, he was ordained and embarked on an ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Woodstock, Ontario, swiftly followed by elevation to vicar within the same parish.{{cite book | last=Malden Richard (ed) | first=| author-link= | title= Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn) | location= London | publisher= The Field Press| pages=1049| year=1920 | isbn=}}
Promotion followed rapidly and he was, successively, called as a Canon of St Paul's Cathedral, London, Ontario, and Dean of Ontario. He left Ontario when called in 1909 as Bishop of Montreal, serving until 1939."Long-serving Bishop of Montreal to retire", The Times, Sep 20, 1938; pg. 11; Issue 48104 A keen observer of Montreal life,[http://www.rootsweb.com/~qcmtl-w/ BooksAboutMontreal.html Recollections of JCF's life in Montreal] he was a moderate prelate.[http://individual.utoronto.ca/hayes/Canada/churchunion.htm "Views on ecumenical union"], University of Toronto
Marriage and family
He married Mary Kemp. They had two sons, John Farthing, who became a philosopher.'Who was Who' 1897-1990, London: A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}} and Hugh Cragg Farthing, a lawyer who followed a political and judicial career in Alberta
Arms
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|escutcheon = Azure on a fess engrailed Or between five mullets Argent, three in chief and two in base, three cross crosslets Azure.
|crest = A demi-lion Azure charged on the shoulder with a cross patté and holding a mullet Or.
See also
References
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External links
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Category:Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
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