Faber, GEORGE STANLEY

Faber, GEORGE STANLEY, Anglican divine, was the eldest son of the Rev. Thomas Faber, and was born at Calverley vicarage, near Bradford, 25th October 1773. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1789, and four years later was elected Fellow and Tutor of Lincoln College. As Bampton Lecturer for 1801, he delivered the lectures subsequently published under the title of Horæ Mosaiice (1801). In 1805 he became vicar of Stockton-on-Tees, and, after several changes, received in 1832 the mastership of Sherburn Hospital, near Durham. He died at Sherburn on 27th January 1854. Of Faber's numerous theological works, those on prophecy were most popular.