Leslie Farrer
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Sir Walter Leslie Farrer KCVO
(30 January 1900 - 6 March 1984) was a British
solicitor
. He was Private Solicitor to both King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II. He married Marjorie Laura Pollock, daughter of the Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth
. They had one son - Matthew Farrer
and one daughter.
He wrote a letter to the Times, about Ernest Gellner
.
KCVO
KCVO may refer to:* Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, a British honour* the ICAO identifier of Corvallis Municipal Airport in Corvallis, Oregon, United States* KCVO-FM, a radio station licensed to Camdenton, Missouri, United States...
(30 January 1900 - 6 March 1984) was a British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
solicitor
Solicitor
Solicitors are lawyers who traditionally deal with any legal matter including conducting proceedings in courts. In the United Kingdom, a few Australian states and the Republic of Ireland, the legal profession is split between solicitors and barristers , and a lawyer will usually only hold one title...
. He was Private Solicitor to both King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II. He married Marjorie Laura Pollock, daughter of the Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth
Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth
Ernest Murray Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth KBE PC KC was a British Conservative Member of Parliament and Master of the Rolls.He was the MP for Warwick and Leamington from 1910 to 1923...
. They had one son - Matthew Farrer
Matthew Farrer
Sir Charles Matthew Farrer GCVO was private solicitor to the HM The Queen from 1965 to 1994. He is the son of Leslie Farrer and the Honourable Lady Farrer.- References:...
and one daughter.
He wrote a letter to the Times, about Ernest Gellner
Ernest Gellner
Ernest André Gellner was a philosopher and social anthropologist, described by The Daily Telegraph when he died as one of the world's most vigorous intellectuals and by The Independent as a "one-man crusade for critical rationalism."His first book, Words and Things —famously, and uniquely...
.
Sources
- FARRER, Sir (Walter) Leslie’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 22 May 2011