James Farish Farrer (6 January 1876 – 6 July 1967) was an Australian politician.
He was born in
Modewarre, where he attended state school before qualifying as a
woolclasser
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. He became a grazier at Modewarre and later at
Pirron Yallock, and on 28 February 1914 married Alice Annie Jenkins, with whom he had two sons. In 1906 he won a by-election for the
Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of
Barwon. A Liberal, he served until his defeat in 1917. Farrer retired around 1929 and died in
Richmond
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in 1967.
References
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1876 births
1967 deaths
Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly