Baron Farrer
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Baron Farrer, of Abinger in the County of Surrey, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
. It was created on 22 June 1893 for the statistician
and civil servant
Thomas Farrer
. The first Baron was also a baronet
, having been created the first Baronet in 1883. The title became extinct on the death of the Fifth Baron on 16 December 1964.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...
. It was created on 22 June 1893 for the statistician
Statistician
A statistician is someone who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. The core of that work is to measure, interpret, and describe the world and human activity patterns within it...
and civil servant
British Civil Service
Her Majesty's Home Civil Service, also known as the Home Civil Service, is the permanent bureaucracy of Crown employees that supports Her Majesty's Government - the government of the United Kingdom, composed of a Cabinet of ministers chosen by the prime minister, as well as the devolved...
Thomas Farrer
Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer was an English civil servant and statistician.Farrer was the son of Thomas Farrer, a solicitor in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Born in London, he was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1840...
. The first Baron was also a baronet
Baronet
A baronet or the rare female equivalent, a baronetess , is the holder of a hereditary baronetcy awarded by the British Crown...
, having been created the first Baronet in 1883. The title became extinct on the death of the Fifth Baron on 16 December 1964.
Barons Farrer (1893)
- Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer, 1st BaronetThomas Farrer, 1st Baron FarrerThomas Henry Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer was an English civil servant and statistician.Farrer was the son of Thomas Farrer, a solicitor in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Born in London, he was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1840...
(1819–1899) - Thomas Cecil Farrer, 2nd Baron Farrer, 2nd BaronetThomas Farrer, 2nd Baron FarrerThomas Cecil Farrer, 2nd Baron Farrer, 2nd Baronet was the second Baron Farrer. He was the eldest son of Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer and his first wife Frances Erskine....
(1859–1940) - Cecil Claude Farrer, 3rd Baron Farrer, 3rd BaronetCecil Farrer, 3rd Baron FarrerCecil Claude Farrer, 3rd Baron Farrer, 3rd Baronet OBE was the third Baron Farrer.He was the son of Thomas Farrer, 2nd Baron Farrer and his first wife Evelyn Spring-Rice, daughter of The Hon. Charles Spring-Rice, the son of Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon. He was educated at...
(1893–1948) - Oliver Thomas Farrer, 4th Baron Farrer, 4th BaronetOliver Farrer, 4th Baron FarrerOliver Thomas Farrer, 4th Baron Farrer, 4th Baronet DL JP was the fourth Baron Farrer.He was born in 1904, the second of Thomas Farrer, 2nd Baron Farrer by his second wife Evangeline , daughter of Octavius Newry Knox JP...
(1904–1954) - Anthony Thomas Farrer, 5th Baron Farrer, 5th BaronetAnthony Farrer, 5th Baron FarrerAnthony Thomas Farrer, 5th Baron Farrer, 5th Baronet was the fifth and last Baron Farrer.Born in 1910, he was the son of the civil servant The Hon. Noel Maitland Farrer, the third son of Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer...
(1910–1964)