Adam Storey Farrar

Adam Storey Farrar (1826–1905) was an English clergyman and theologian. Educated at Oxford, he became a fellow of Queen's College and in 1862 delivered the Bampton Lectures, published as A Critical History of Free Thought in Reference to the Christian Religion, a survey of skeptical and critical thought from antiquity to the nineteenth century written from an orthodox standpoint. In 1864 he was appointed professor of divinity and ecclesiastical history at the University of Durham, where he taught for the rest of his career.