John Richard Farre
1775–1862 (age 87)
Biography
John Richard Farre was a distinguished physician whose medical expertise and practice contributed to the development of British medicine during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Born in 1775, he witnessed and participated in the transformative changes that modernized medical practice and education.
Farre's professional achievements were honored by his burial in Kensal Green Cemetery, a cemetery that became the resting place for many of Britain's most accomplished professionals and intellectuals. His death in 1862 concluded a long career devoted to medical science and the care of his patients.