Everard Farr was the son of self-taught Christchurch architect, Samuel Farr. Everard was trained by and worked for his father before joining the North Canterbury Education Board. He travelled to Melbourne in c.1888, and arrived in Wellington by 1892. He worked for Clere & Richmond and for the Public Works Department from 1894 – 1898, before the establishment of his own architectural practice with Ernest Coleridge (as Farr and Coleridge).
