A Book of Song and Service #166
		Tune Title: [In the field with their flocks abiding] First Line: In the field with their flocks abiding Date: 1905 Source: Hutchins's S. S. Hymnal 
			
	A Book of Song and Service #166

Born: August 16, 1835, Nottingham, England.
Died: July 17, 1901, at his home in Oxford, England.
Buried: St. Sepulchre’s Cemetery, Jericho, Oxford, England.
Eldest child of butcher John Farmer and milliner Mary Blackshaw Farmer, John learned to play the piano, violin, and harp when young. He was apprenticed to his uncle Henry Farmer, an organist, composer, and music teacher with a music and musical instrument business in Nottingham. At age 14, John  went to study at the Leipzig Conservatory, then three years later under Andreas Spaeth in Coburg for a year. He returned to England in 1853, and entered his father’s lac… Go to person page >| Title: | [In the field with their flocks abiding] (Farmer) | 
| Composer: | John Farmer | 
| Incipit: | 34532 12565 12333 | 
| Copyright: | Public Domain | 
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