3-074-543 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sir T. H. Farrer, Bart., Permanent Secretary of the Board of Trade, 1883. Engraving from a photograph by Vianelli, of Venice. 'Sir Thomas Henry Farrer, of Abinger Hall, Dorking, Surrey, the Permanent Secretary of the Board of Trade, upon whom, as lately announced, her Majesty has been pleased to confer the honour of a baronetcy in recognition of his long and distinguished public service, is the eldest son of the late Mr. Thomas Farrer, of Lincoln's-inn-fields, by his marriage with Cecilia, daughter of Mr. Richard Willis, of Halsnead, Prescot, Lancashire, and was born in the year 1819. Mr. Farrer was educated at Eton, and graduated at Balliol College, Oxford, taking his bachelor's degree in 1841. He was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of Lincoln's-inn, in Michaelmas term, 1844, and practised for some time as an equity draughtsman. Mr. Farrer is a magistrate for Surrey, and has been connected with the Board of Trade about thirty years. Mr. Farrer has been twice married - first, in 1854, to Frances, daughter of Mr. William Erskine, of the Indian Civil Service; and secondly, in 1873, to Katherine Euphemia, daughter of Mr. Hensleigh Wedgwood. His son and heir, Thomas Cecil, was born in 1859'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.