Coleridge Farr
Clinton Coleridge Farr was a New Zealand geophysicist, electrical engineer and university professor.
Early life and career
Farr was born the youngest son of Rev. George Henry Farr and Julia Warren Farr on 22 May 1866. George was first headmaster of the Collegiate School of St Peter in Adelaide, South Australia. Coleridge was educated at the University of Adelaide, University College, London and the University of Sydney.Farr tutored at Sydney and then Adelaide from 1893 to 1896, when he was appointed lecturer in mathematics and physics at Lincoln Agricultural College near Christchurch, New Zealand. As Director of the Christchurch Magnetic Observatory, he organised a magnetic survey of New Zealand and was awarded the first science D.Sc. by the University of Adelaide.
As lecturer in physics and surveying at Canterbury College, Christchurch Farr was a member of the 1907 [Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition]. He was created Professor of Physics at Canterbury College in 1911.
In 1919 he was elected as one of the inaugural fellows of the New Zealand Institute, winning their Hector Medal in 1922 and serving as their president from 1929 to May 1931. In 1928 he was elected a Fellow of the [Royal Society of London].