or FARNABY, Thomas, a grammarian and critical scholar, was born in London in 1575. In his sixteenth year he entered Merton College, which, however, as he was of a restless disposition, he left somewhat abruptly. Passing over into Spain, he embraced the Catholic faith, and entered a college of the Jesuits in that country. The severity of the discipline, however, displeased him, and in 1595 he left the college, to join the last expedition of Drake and Hawkins. He is said to have served afterwards as a soldier in the Low Countries; but he at length returned to England in great poverty, and to meet his immediate necessities opened a school in Cornwall, where, however, he met with no immediate success; and removed to Mattock in Somersetshire, where he began to prosper beyond his utmost hopes. He staid here long enough to establish a considerable reputation, on the strength of which he removed to London and organized a school there, which at one period was attended by upwards of 300 pupils, chiefly the sons of noblemen and gentlemen, and, according to Antony à Wood, turned out a greater number of churchmen and statesmen than any school taught by one man in England. He now received the degree of M.A. from Cambridge, and shortly afterwards the same honour from Oxford. With the money which his success enabled him to realize, he bought estates in Kent and Surrey, and would in all like- lihood have ended his days happily, had he not taken part in the civil wars as a partisan of the king. By the parliament he was taken prisoner and consigned to captivity, first in New- gate and afterwards in Ely House. He died in 1647. His works consist chiefly of annotated editions of Juvenal and Persius, Seneca and Virgil. His edition of Terence, left un- finished, was completed and published after his death by Dr Meric Casaubon. His other works, such as his Systema Grammaticum, are chiefly philological, and have been long superseded.