TOWNSEND-FARQUHAR, SIR MINTO WALTER, BART., second son of Sir Walter Minto Townsend-Farquhar, Bart., MP, and Erica Catherine Mackay, natural dau. of Eric Mackay, 7th Baron Reay (S) (qv); grandson of Sir Robert Townsend Townsend-Farquhar, Bart. (qv); b. 18 Dec 1837; adm. 6 Jun 1849 (G); an intimate friend of Francis Markham (qv), who refers to him frequently in his Recollections of a Town Boy at Westminster; two curious experiences of his when at school are related in Elizabethan xiii, 86-7; at Haileybury Coll. 1855-7; Writer, EICS Madras 1857; resigned in England 22 May 1861; succ. brother as 4th baronet 16 May 1867; [m. ?]; d. 8 Jun 1872.
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