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FAIRFAX, BRIAN, eldest son of Brian Fairfax LLD, Equerry to Charles II and William III, and Charlotte, dau. of Sir Edmund Cary, Kt.; b. 11 Apr 1676; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1690; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1693, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1693, scholar 20 Apr 1694, matr. 1695; BA 1696/7; MA 1700; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Oct 1699, Major Fellow 5 Apr 1701- c. 1707; presumably Brian Fairfax who was Deputy Treasurer of Chamber, Royal Household May 1720 - c. Aug 1721; Commissioner of Taxes 22 Dec 1714 – Aug 1723, Commissioner of Customs from 1723; collected a valuable library and a gallery of pictures at his house in Panton Square, Haymarket; d. unm. 9 Jan 1748/9. DNB.

FAIRFAX, CHARLES BRANDON, brother of Brian Fairfax (qv); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 18 Sep 1684 (IGI); adm.; KS 1697; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1702, matr. 12 Jun 1702, aged 17, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1702 - void 1719, Tutor 1711-5; BA 20 Feb 1706/7; MA 1709; ordained; Rector of Barnham St. Gregory and St. Martin, Suffolk, 1718-22; Rector of Euston, Suffolk, 1718-22; Dean of Down and Connor from 22 Feb 1721/2; “a good scholar in the old Irish character” (Cotton, Fasti. Ecc. Hib., iii, 227); m. 1st, --- Brandon [check : is this a misunderstanding ?]; m. 2nd, 1723 Elizabeth, dau. of Christopher Calthorpe, Ampton, Suffolk; d. 27 Jul 1723. DNB.

FAIRFAX, FERDINANDO, brother of Brian Fairfax (qv); b. 11 Jun 1678; adm.; KS 1691; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1694, adm. 21 Jun 1694, scholar 5 Apr 1695, matr. 1695; BA 1697/8; d. unm. 12 Feb 1748/9 (but will proved PCC 22 Feb 1748 (sic)] DNB.

FALKNER, HENRY, son of Henry Falkner, Walpole St. Peter, Norfolk; b. (King’s Lynn); adm. 19 Oct 1770; KS (aged 15) 1773; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1777, adm. pens. 28 May 1777, scholar 15 May 1778, matr. Mich. 1781. [will of Henry Falkner, Walpole St. Peter, Norfolk, gentleman, proved PCC 24 Mar 1789]

FANSHAWE, JOHN, brother of Thomas Fanshawe (b. 1696, qv); b. 17 Aug 1697; at school in 1708; Min. Can. 1711; QS 1712; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1716, matr. 8 Jun 1716, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1716 - void 20 Oct 1740 (expiry year of grace as R. Staverton), Tutor 1723-36, Librarian 1737, Junior Censor 1727, Senior Censor 1728-31, Catechist 1732-3; BA 1720; MA 1723; BD 14 Mar 1731/2; DD 1733; ordained deacon 24 Sep 1727, priest 24 Dec 1727 (Oxford); Rector of Cotesbach, Leics., from 8 Jan 1727/8; Rector of Staverton, Northants., 8 Oct 1739 - 41; Regius Professor of Grteek, Oxford, 17 Oct 1735-47, and of Divinity from 30 Oct 1741; Canon of Christ Church from 15 Nov 1741; d. unm. 9 May 1763.

FAREWELL, PHILLIPS, son of Phillips Farewell, Ware, Herts., barrister, and Eleonora --- [dau. of Sir John Seyliard, Bart. ?]; bapt. St. Margaret’s Westminster 25 Feb 1686/7; adm.; QS 1702; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1706, adm. pens. 28 May 1706, aged 18, scholar 25 Apr 1707; BA 1709/10; MA 1713; DD 1730; Under Clerk, Treasury Dec 1711 - Jun 1712; Minor Fellow, Trin. Coll., 2 Oct 1712, Major Fellow 1 May 1713; warmly espoused the cause of the Fellows against Bentley; Taxor 1717; resided mostly at Lambeth Palace with Archbishop Wake; ordained deacon 2 Feb 1729/30, priest 8 Feb 1729/30 (both Peterborough); Rector of Clipsham, Rutland, from 16 Feb 1729/30; d. 11 Dec 1730.

Farmer, Edwin Adderley, son of Frederic Spencer Herbert Farmer, bank accountant, of Blackheath, and Edith Maud, d. of Edwin Tetton of Buenos Aires, Argentina; b. 21 Jan. 1935; adm. Sept. 1948 (KS); left July 1953; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1955; d. in a car accident 11 Sept. 1959.

FARNFOULD, THOMAS, second son of Sir Thomas Farnfould, Kt, MP, Steyning, Sussex, and his first wife Dorothy, dau. of Bartholomew Rogers, Usher of Court of Wards; bapt. 10 Jul 1626; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1641, matr. 10 Dec 1641, aged 15.

FARQUHAR, SIR THOMAS HARVIE, BART., eldest son of Sir Walter Farquhar, Bart., MD FRCP (Ed), Physician to Prince Regent, and Ann Harvey, widow [“widow of Dr. [Thomas ?] Harvie, a physician”], fourth dau. of Alexander Stevenson, Barbados, West Indies; b. 27 Jun 1775; adm. 6 Jun 1787; KS 1789; banker, firm Herries Farquhar & Co., St. James’s Street, London; succ. father as 2nd baronet 21 Mar 1819; m. 11 Jul 1809 Sybella Martha, only dau. of Rev. Morton Rockliff, Woodford, Essex; d. 12 Jan 1836.

Farquharson, Maurice Gordon, son of George Sinclair Farquharson MB MRCS of Southamp­ton, and Violet Annie, d. of Lewis Stewart of Tufnell Park; b. 29 Mar. 1899; adm. Sept. 1913 (KS); left July 1917; Grenadier Guards in WWI, 2nd Lieut. Mar. 1918, despatches Dec. 1918, MC Apr. 1919; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1919, BA 1922, MA 1926; asst master Bedales Sch. 1921-6; an actor 1926-9; Nat. Council of Social Service 1929-35; joined BBC 1935; OBE 1951; Secretary BBC 1957-63, CBE 1963; m. 1930 Nancy, d. of Rudolph Kohnstamm of Hampstead; d. 14 May 1993.