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Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer

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19th-century English civil servant

The Right Honourable The Lord Farrer

Personal details
Born	(1819-06-24)24 June 1819 London, England
Died	11 October 1899(1899-10-11) (aged 80) Abinger Hall,Abinger Hammer, Surrey
Political party	Liberal Party
Spouses	Frances Erskine . Katherine Euphemia Wedgwood
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford

Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer (24 June 1819 – 11 October 1899), was an Englishcivil servant,statistician and member of theHouse of Lords.

Background and early life

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Farrer was the son of Thomas Farrer, a solicitor inLincoln's Inn Fields. Born in London, he was educated atEton College andBalliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1840. He was called to the bar atLincoln's Inn in 1844, but retired from practice in the course of a few years.^[1]

Career in the civil service

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He entered the public service in 1850 as secretary to the naval department (renamed the marine department in 1853) of theBoard of Trade. In 1865 he was promoted to be one of the joint secretaries of the Board of Trade, and in 1867 became permanent secretary.^[1]

His tenure of the office of permanent secretary, which he held for upwards of twenty years, was marked by many reforms and an energetic administration. Not only was he an advancedLiberal in politics, but an uncompromising advocate offree trade of the strictest school. He was created abaronet for his services at the Board of Trade in 1883,^[2] and in 1886 he retired from office. During the same year he published a work entitledFree Trade versus Fair Trade, in which he dealt with an economic controversy then greatly agitating the public mind. He had already, in 1883, written a volume onThe State in its Relation to Trade.^[1]

In 1889 he was co-opted by the Progressives as an alderman of theLondon County Council, of which he became vice-chairman in 1890. His efficiency and ability in this capacity were warmly recognized; but in the course of time divergences arose between his personal views and those of many of his colleagues. The tendency towards socialistic legislation which became apparent was quite at variance with his principles of individual enterprise and responsibility. He consequently resigned his position.^[1]

In the1893 Birthday Honours, he was raised to the peerage asBaron Farrer,of Abinger, in the County of Surrey.^[3] From this time forward he devoted much of his energy and leisure to advocating his views at theCobden Club, thePolitical Economy Club, on the platform, and in the press. His efforts were especially directed against the opinions of theFair Trade League, and upon this and other economic controversies he wrote able, clear, and uncompromising letters, which left no doubt that he still adhered to the doctrines of free trade as advocated by its earliest exponents. In 1898 he published hisStudies in Currency.^[1]

He wasPresident of the Royal Statistical Society from 1894 to 1896.^[4]

Marriage and issue

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Farrer married twice, first in 1854 to Frances Erskine (1825–1870), daughter of the historian and orientalistWilliam Erskine (1773–1852) and his wife, Maitland Mackintosh, daughter ofSir James Mackintosh by his first wife. They bore the following children:

Hon.Emma Cecilia "Ida" Farrer (1854–1946), marriedHorace Darwin, son ofCharles Darwin
Hon.Thomas Cecil Farrer (1859–1940), married Evelyn Spring Rice, daughter of Hon. Charles Spring Rice
Claude Erskine Farrer (1862–1890)^[5]
Hon.Noel Maitland Farrer (1867–1929), father ofAnthony Farrer, 5th Baron Farrer.

Frances died on 15 May 1870. Farrer remarried in 1873 to his former wife's half-cousin, Katherine Euphemia Wedgwood (1839–1931), daughter ofHensleigh Wedgwood of theWedgwood pottery family and his wife Fanny Mackintosh.

Death

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Farrer died atAbinger Hall,Dorking, in 1899 and was buried atBrookwood Cemetery. He was succeeded in the title by his eldest sonThomas Cecil Farrer (1859–1940).^[1]

References

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^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Farrer, Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st Baron".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 189.
^"No. 25278".The London Gazette. 16 October 1883. p. 4917.
^"No. 26415".The London Gazette. 23 June 1893. p. 3570.
^"Royal Statistical Society Presidents". Royal Statistical Society. Retrieved6 August 2010.
^"Claude Erskine Farrer (FRR882CE)".A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

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Party political offices
New political party	Leader of theProgressive Party 1889–1890	Succeeded by James Stuart
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baron Farrer 1893–1899	Succeeded by Thomas Farrer
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baronet (of Abinger) 1883–1899	Succeeded by Thomas Farrer

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