James Farrer
1812–79
Landowner, politician, and archaeologist. Resided at Ingleborough, Yorkshire. Cousin of Thomas Henry Farrer. MP for Durham. Published on the archaeology of Chedworth Wood, Gloucestershire.
Sources
Burke’s landed gentry
J. Farrer 1866
Bibliography
Burke’s landed gentry: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but unvisited with heritable honours. Burke’s genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry. By John Burke et al. 1st–18th edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1833–1969.
Farrer, James. 1866. Notice of recent excavations in Chedworth Wood, on the estate of the Earl of Eldon, in the county of Gloucester. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 6 (1864–6): 278–83.
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