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English landowner and politician

The Right HonourableHenry Richard FarquharsonPC
Member of Parliament
for West Dorset
In office
1885 – 19 April 1895
Preceded byPosition created
Succeeded byRobert Williams
Personal details
Born1857 (1857)
Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Died19 April 1895(1895-04-19) (aged 37–38)
Red Sea, Indian Ocean
Political partyConservative
Spouse(s)Constance Farquharson
(1878-1895; his death)
OccupationLandowner

Henry Richard Farquharson (1857 – 19 April 1895) was an English landowner and Conservative politician.

Farquharson was born at Brighton and became the owner of a large estate at Eastbury House, Tarrant Gunville (near Blandford Forum in Dorset). He was a keen breeder of Newfoundland dogs and had a pack of one hundred and twenty five. He imported them through the port of Poole, Dorset and had a Crufts winner.

He was elected at the 1885 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for West Dorset, and held the seat until his death. In 1891, an unnamed West of England M.P., now believed to have been Henry Richard Farquharson, was mentioned in a newspaper article as claiming that Jack the Ripper, the infamous murderer in the impoverished Whitechapel District in the East End of London, was the son of a surgeon and that he committed suicide after he had committed murder of Mary Jane Kelly on the night of 9 November 1888. It is believed that the reference was to Montague John Druitt, a fellow West County man, who committed suicide at the end of November 1888 and whose body was retrieved from the Thames at Chiswick a month later. Druitt was born in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England, the second son of prominent local surgeon William Druitt, and his wife Ann (née Harvey).

In the 1892 election, Farquharson libelled his opponent Charles Tindal Gatty, by saying he had been expelled from Charterhouse School for immorality, and was ordered to pay £5,000 damages a year later. This was reduced to £2,500 on appeal.

He died on 19 April 1895, in the Red Sea, on a voyage home from Colombo, Ceylon.

References

  1. "Historical list of MPs: constituencies beginning with D, part 2". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 31 July 2018. Retrieved 14 January 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. Dorset Online Parish Clerks - Tarrant Gunville
  3. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) . British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 266. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
  6. The West Australian, 22 June 1893

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