THE VEN. F. W. FARRAR, D.D.
F. W. Farrar (1839 47) was Head of the School and had a distinguished career at Trinity College, Cambridge He was Scholar and Fellow of Trinity; Chancellor's medallist; he won the Hulsean and Le Bas Essay prizes and was placed fourth in the first class, Classical Tripos, in 1854. He was first an assistant master at Marlborough and later at Harrow. He was Headmaster of Marlborough 1871-76; Canon and Archdeacon of Westminster and Rector of St. Margaret's 1876-95;Chaplain to the House of Commons; the Chaplain and Deputy-Clerk to the Closet to H.M. King Edward VII; Fellow of the Royal Society; and became Dean of Canterbury in 1895, where he died in 1903. His many writings included Eternal Hope and The Life of Christ;but he is perhaps best known at College - and elsewhere - as the author of one of the first books on the Public Schools - Eric or Little by Little;
The Rev. John Ellerton (1842-44) was not only a great hymn writer but a great hymnologist. He had an exhaustive knowledge, not only of Greek and Latin hymns, but of those in most European languages. He contributed the article on hymns in Smith's Dictionary of Antiquities. His own compositions included " Saviour again to Thy dear Name we raise "; " The day Thou gavest, Lord, is ended "; " This is the day of light ";and " Now the labourer's task is o'er."
T. E. Brown (1846-49), the poet, whose centenary was celebrated in 1930, is one of the greatest of our Manx old boys. He gained an exhibition to Christ Church, Oxford, and took a first class in Classics and a first in Law and History. He became a Fellow of Oriel, and returned to K.W.C. as Vice-Principal in 1855. In 1861 he became Headmaster of the Crypt Grammar School, Gloucester, and joined his friend J. M. Wilson, also an O.K.W., and then Headmaster of Clifton, as second master at Clifton in 1863. He died while on a visit to Clifton, after his retirement, in 1897. His place among the greater British poets is now secure. It is his Manx poems which are most characteristic of the man, and which enshrine the genius and natural philosophy of the Manx people. He is commemorated by two side windows in the Chapel erected in 1898, and also by a bronze tablet on the wall.
THE REV. T. F. BROWN.
FIELD-MARSHAL SIR GEORGE WHITE, V.C.
Sir George Stewart White, V.C. (1847-50) is best known as the defender of Ladysmith, during the South African War, from and November, 1899, to 1st March,1900. He saw wide service in the army in many parts of the world. He was decorated with the V.C.in recognition of his conspicuous bravery at Charasiab in1879. He held the orders C.B., K.C.B., G.C.I.E., G.C.B.,G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., and O.M. He was Hon. LL.D. of Cambridge; D.C.L. Oxford; and LL.D. Dublin. He was promoted Field-marshal in 1903. The service jacket with its probably unique collection of medal ribbons,which he wore during the siege of Ladysmith, was presented to the College in 1932, and is in the Walker Library.
The Rev. Thomas Fowler, D.D. Oxon, Hon. LL.D.(Edin.) (1848-49), was Postmaster of Morton College,Oxford; he was a " double first " in Classics and Mathematics; Fellow of Lincoln; Denyer TheologicalScholar. He served the University as Proctor, Professorof Logic, and Select Preacher. He became President of Corpus Christi in 1881 and was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford 1899-1900. Dr. Fowler was born in Castletown and attended the College as a day boy. He died at Oxford in 1904 and bequeathed to the Trustees an endowment of £1000 for the College.
THE REV. T. FOWLER, D.D., LL.D.
