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Oliver Farrer, 4th Baron Farrer

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Oliver Thomas Farrer, 4th Baron Farrer (5 October 1904 – 24 January 1954) was a British peer.

Background

He was born in 1904, the second son of Thomas Farrer, 2nd Baron Farrer, and the first by his second wife Evangeline (née Knox), daughter of Octavius Newry Knox JP (son of The Hon. John Henry Knox, son of Thomas Knox, 1st Earl of Ranfurly).

Life

He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1925). During the Second World War he served as an officer in the Royal Air Force, reaching the rank of wing commander. He was a county councillor on Hertfordshire County Council and was appointed to be a Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire in 1951 and a justice of the peace. In 1948 Farrer succeeded his half-brother in the title; upon his own death in 1954, the Barony passed to their cousin, Anthony Farrer, 5th Baron Farrer, before becoming extinct.

Marriage

In 1931 he married Katharine Runciman, youngest daughter of Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford. They had no children.

References

  1. "No. 39412". The London Gazette. 18 December 1951. p. 6600.
  • 'FARRER', Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 20 May 2011
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded byCecil Farrer Baron Farrer
1948–1954 		Succeeded byAnthony Farrer
Farrer family tree
Matthew White
Ridley
(1745–1813)		Sarah Colborne
(1755–1806)		James Farrer
(1751–1820)		Frances Loxham
(c. 1760–1826)
Matthew White Ridley
(1778–1836)		Nicholas William
Ridley-Colborne
(1779–1854)		Henrietta Elizabeth Ridley
(1781–1853)		James William Farrer
(1785–1863)		Thomas Farrer
(1787–1833)		Cecilia Willis
(1794–1867)
Oliver William Farrer
(1819–1876)		Emily Charlotte
Hannah Cooke
(1825–1902)		Matthew Thomas Farrer
(1816–1889)		Mary Louisa Anson
(1818–1856)		Thomas Henry Farrer
(1819–1899)		Frances Erskine
(1825–1870)
Mabel Gertrude Smith
(1863–1946)		Bryan Farrer
(1858–1944)		Walter Farrer
(1862–1934)		James Anson Farrer
(1849–1925)		Elizabeth Georgina
Reynell Pack
(1853–1937)		Matthew George Farrer
(1852–1928)
Horace Darwin
(1851–1928)		Emma Cecilia
"Ida" Farrer
(1854–1946)		Claude Erskine Farrer
(1862–1890)		Noel Maitland Farrer
(1867–1929)		Mabel Elizabeth Elliot
(1871–1947)
Marjorie Laura Pollock
(1895–1981)		Walter Leslie Farrer
(1900–1984)		Reginald John Farrer
(1880–1920)		Evelyn Mary
Spring-Rice
(1863–1898)		Thomas Cecil Farrer
(1859–1940)		Evangeline Knox
(1871–1968)
Charles Matthew
Farrer
(born 1929)		Cecil Claude
Farrer
(1893–1948)		Frances Margaret
Farrer
(1895–1977)		Oliver Thomas
Farrer
(1904–1954)		Anthony Thomas
Farrer
(1910–1964)
Sources: The Farrer family: Pearce, Ken. North Craven Heritage Trust


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