Cecil Claude Farrer, 3rd Baron Farrer (8 May 1893 – 11 March 1948), was the third

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 Sir Thomas Farrer, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a baronet ...

Background

He was the son of

Thomas Farrer, 2nd Baron Farrer Thomas Cecil Farrer, 2nd Baron Farrer (25 October 1859 – 12 April 1940), was the second Baron Farrer. He was the eldest son of Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer, and his first wife Frances Erskine. Life Farrer was a long-term member of the board ...

, and his first wife Evelyn Spring Rice, daughter of the Hon. Charles Spring Rice, son of

Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon, (8 February 17907 February 1866) was a British Whig politician, who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1835 to 1839. Background Spring Rice was born into a notable Anglo-Irish fami ...

Life

He was educated at

Eton College Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, C ...

and

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(MA 1914). In 1917 he was appointed to the

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as an Officer (OBE). He succeeded his father as

upon his father's death in 1940. He was Honorary Treasurer of the Commons, Open Space and Footpaths Preservation Society; Member of Box Hill Committee and

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Committee of the

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. Upon his death in 1948 he was succeeded by his half-brother Oliver Farrer, 4th Baron Farrer.

Marriage

He married in 1919 Evelyn Hilda Perry, but they had no issue.

References

‘FARRER’
Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 20 May 2011. {{DEFAULTSORT:Farrer, Cecil Farrer, 3rd Baron 1893 births 1948 deaths Officers of the Order of the British Empire People educated at Eton College Alumni of New College, Oxford Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom