Thomas Cecil Farrer, 2nd Baron Farrer, 2nd Baronet (25 October 1859-12 April 1940) was the second Baron Farrer

Baron Farrer

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...

. He was the eldest son of Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron 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...

 and his first wife Frances Erskine.

In 1892 Farrer married Evelyn Spring-Rice, daughter of The Hon. Charles Spring-Rice, the son of Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon

Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon

Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon, PC, FRS was a British Whig politician, who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1835 to 1839.-Background:...

. They had one son (Cecil Claude Farrer, 3rd Baron Farrer, born 1893) and two daughters (Frances Farrer

Frances Farrer

The Hon. Dame Frances Margaret Farrer DBE was Secretary of the NUSEC and later was named as General Secretary of the Women's Institute in 1929. The daughter of a senior civil servant, she ran the office on civil service lines; Meriel Withall, one of her successors said "it was a model of [good]...

 (born 1895) and Katharine Dianthe Farrer (born 1896) who married Edward Ettingdene Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges

Edward Ettingdene Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges

Edward Ettingdene Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges, KG, GCB, GCVO, PC, MC, FRS was a British civil servant.Born in Yattendon in Berkshire, Bridges was the son of Robert Bridges, later Poet Laureate, and Mary Monica Waterhouse, daughter of the architect Alfred Waterhouse. He was educated at Eton and...

). In 1903 he remarried to Evangeline Knox, daughter of Octavius Knox. They had one son (Oliver Farrer, 4th Baron Farrer

Oliver Farrer, 4th Baron Farrer

Oliver 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...

) and one daughter.

Farrer was a long-term member of the board of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London

Underground Electric Railways Company of London

The Underground Electric Railways Company of London Limited , known operationally as The Underground for much of its existence, was established in 1902. It was the holding company for the three deep-level "tube"A "tube" railway is an underground railway constructed in a circular tunnel by the use...

 (a forerunner of the London Underground

London Underground

The London Underground is a rapid transit system serving a large part of Greater London and some parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex in England...

).

He resided at Abinger Hall, in Dorking

Dorking

Dorking is a historic market town at the foot of the North Downs approximately south of London, in Surrey, England.- History and development :...

, Surrey

Surrey

Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...

.