John Farthing

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John Colborne Farthing
Born	(1897-03-18)18 March 1897 Woodstock, Ontario
Died	9 March 1954(1954-03-09) (aged 56) Montreal, Quebec
Resting place	Anglican Cemetery, Woodstock, Ontario
Education	McGill University (B.A., 1921) New College, Oxford (B.A., 1924)
Military career
Allegiance	Canada
Service / branch	Canadian Army
Years of service	1916 – 1916
Rank	Sergeant
Unit	66th Field Battery, Canadian Artillery
Battles / wars	World War I

John Colborne Farthing (18 March 1897 – 9 March 1954) was a Canadian soldier, thinker, philosopher, economist, teacher, and author of the seminal tract Freedom Wears a Crown, published posthumously. It rather quickly became an epistle of Red Toryism.