Cecil Claude Farrer, 3rd Baron Farrer, 3rd Baronet OBE (8 May 1893 - 11 March 1948) was the third Baron Farrer

Baron Farrer

Baron Farrer, of Abinger in the County of Surrey, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 22 June 1893 for the statistician and civil servant Thomas Farrer. The first Baron was also a baronet, having been created the first Baronet in 1883...

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He was the son of Thomas Farrer, 2nd Baron Farrer

Thomas Farrer, 2nd Baron Farrer

Thomas Cecil Farrer, 2nd Baron Farrer, 2nd Baronet was the second Baron Farrer. He was the eldest son of Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer and his first wife Frances Erskine....

 and his first wife Evelyn Spring-Rice, daughter of The Hon. Charles Spring-Rice, the son of Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon

Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon

Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon, PC, FRS was a British Whig politician, who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1835 to 1839.-Background:...

. He was educated at Eton College

Eton College

Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....

 and New College, Oxford

New College, Oxford

New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.- Overview :The College's official name, College of St Mary, is the same as that of the older Oriel College; hence, it has been referred to as the "New College of St Mary", and is now almost always...

 (MA 1914). In 1917 he was awarded the OBE. He married in 1919 Evelyn Hilda Perry, but they had no issue. He succeeded his father as Baron Farrer

Baron Farrer

Baron Farrer, of Abinger in the County of Surrey, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 22 June 1893 for the statistician and civil servant Thomas Farrer. The first Baron was also a baronet, having been created the first Baronet in 1883...

 upon his father's death in 1940. He was Honorary Treasurer of the Commons, Open Space and Footpaths Preservation Society

Open Spaces Society

The Open Spaces Society , a registered charity, is a UK campaign group to protect public rights of way and common land. It was founded in 1865 as the Commons Preservation Society. It is Britain’s oldest national conservation body. Its founders and early members included John Stuart Mill, Lord...

; Member of Boxhill Committee and Leith Hill

Leith Hill

Leith Hill to the south west of Dorking, Surrey, England, reaches above sea level, the highest point on the Greensand Ridge, and is the second highest point in south-east England, after Walbury Hill near Hungerford, West Berkshire, high....

 Committee of the National Trust

National Trust

National Trust most commonly refers to an organization dedicated to preserving the cultural or environmental treasures of a particular geographic region. They generally operate as private non-profit organizations, although some receive considerable support from their national government...

. Upon his death in 1948 he was succeeded by his half-brother Oliver Farrer, 4th Baron Farrer

Oliver Farrer, 4th Baron Farrer

Oliver Thomas Farrer, 4th Baron Farrer, 4th Baronet DL JP was the fourth Baron Farrer.He was born in 1904, the second of Thomas Farrer, 2nd Baron Farrer by his second wife Evangeline , daughter of Octavius Newry Knox JP...

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