Hugh Farmer, an English theologian, born in Shropshire in 1714, died in London, Feb. 5, 1787. He was educated at the academy in Northampton under Dr. Doddridge, and became pastor of a dissenting congregation at Walthamstow, Essex, where he wrote several theological treatises. He removed to London in 1701, and became afterward preacher to the congregation of Salters' hall, and one of the Tuesday lecturers at the same place. He published an "Inquiry into the Nature and Design of our Lord's Temptation in the Wilderness (1761), a "Dissertation on the Miracles" (1771), an "Essay on the Demoniacs of the New Testament (1775), and a work entitled The General Prevalence of the Worship of Human Spirits in the ancient Heathen Nations" (1783). He considered miracles to, be absolute proofs of a divine mission.