Leslie Farrer
Sir Walter Leslie Farrer KCVO (30 January 1900 – 6 March 1984) was a British solicitor. He was Private Solicitor to both King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II. He married Marjorie Laura Pollock, daughter of Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth. They had one son, Sir Matthew Farrer (also a partner at Farrer & Co), and one daughter.
He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford.
He wrote a letter to the Times, about Ernest Gellner.[1]
References
- ^ A Ved Mehta reader: the craft of the essay. Yale University Press. 1998. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-300-07561-8.
Leslie Farrer solicitor.
Sources
- FARRER, Sir (Walter) Leslie’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 22 May 2011
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Farrer family tree
| Matthew White Ridley (1745–1813) | Sarah Colborne (1755–1806) | James Farrer (1751–1820) | Frances Loxham (c. 1760–1826) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Matthew White Ridley (1778–1836) | Nicholas William Ridley-Colborne (1779–1854) | Henrietta Elizabeth Ridley (1781–1853) | James William Farrer (1785–1863) | Thomas Farrer (1787–1833) | Cecilia Willis (1794–1867) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oliver William Farrer (1819–1876) | Emily Charlotte Hannah Cooke (1825–1902) | Matthew Thomas Farrer (1816–1889) | Mary Louisa Anson (1818–1856) | Thomas Henry Farrer (1819–1899) | Frances Erskine (1825–1870) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mabel Gertrude Smith (1863–1946) | Bryan Farrer (1858–1944) | Walter Farrer (1862–1934) | James Anson Farrer (1849–1925) | Elizabeth Georgina Reynell Pack (1853–1937) | Matthew George Farrer (1852–1928) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Horace Darwin (1851–1928) | Emma Cecilia "Ida" Farrer (1854–1946) | Claude Erskine Farrer (1862–1890) | Noel Maitland Farrer (1867–1929) | Mabel Elizabeth Elliot (1871–1947) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marjorie Laura Pollock (1895–1981) | Walter Leslie Farrer (1900–1984) | Reginald John Farrer (1880–1920) | Evelyn Mary Spring-Rice (1863–1898) | Thomas Cecil Farrer (1859–1940) | Evangeline Knox (1871–1968) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Charles Matthew Farrer (born 1929) | Cecil Claude Farrer (1893–1948) | Frances Margaret Farrer (1895–1977) | Oliver Thomas Farrer (1904–1954) | Anthony Thomas Farrer (1910–1964) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sources: The Farrer family: Pearce, Ken. North Craven Heritage Trust
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