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 Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer (24 June 1819 – 11 October 1899), was an English civil servant and statistician. Background and early life Farrer was the son of Thomas Farrer, a solicitor in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Born in London, he was e ...

, and his first wife Frances Erskine.

Life

Farrer was a long-term member of the board of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (a forerunner of the

London Underground The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or as the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England. The Undergro ...

). He owned a mainly wooded

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with house, Abinger Hall in Abinger,

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, which was renamed at or before the early 1700s when bought by the Dowager Countess of Donegal. Its predecessor was demolished and rebuilt by Farrer's father and is a non-listed home around a courtyard of its former wings and other houses. In 1882 and 1886, on admission of his brothers to Trinity College, Cambridge University, the family also had their home at 27

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, London.

Family

In 1892 Farrer married Evelyn Spring Rice, daughter of Hon. Charles Spring Rice, the son of Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon. They had one son ( Cecil Claude Farrer, born 1893) and two daughters ( Frances Margaret Farrer (born 1895) and Katharine Dianthe Farrer (born 1896) who married Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges). In 1903 he remarried to Evangeline Knox, daughter of Octavius Knox. They had one son ( Oliver Thomas Farrer) and one daughter (Anne Lucy Farrer, b. 1908).

References

1859 births 1940 deaths Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom {{UK-baron-stub