John Cragg Farthing (13 December 1861 – 6 May 1947) was the AnglicanBishop of Montreal for 30 years during the first half of the twentieth century.[1]
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.[2] 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.[3]
He married Mary Kemp. They had two sons, John Farthing, who became a philosopher.[7] and Hugh Cragg Farthing, a lawyer who followed a political and judicial career in Alberta
Arms
Coat of arms of John Farthing
Crest
A demi-lion Azure charged on the shoulder with a cross patté and holding a mullet Or.
Escutcheon
Azure on a fess engrailed Or between five mullets Argent, three in chief and two in base, three cross crosslets Azure.