Donald Farquharson

Sir Donald Henry Farquharson, PC, DL (26 February 1928 – 21 August 2011) was a British barrister judge, who served as a High Court Judge and as a Lord Justice of Appeal.

Biography The younger son of a civil engineer who died prematurely because of wounds sustained during the First World War, Farquharson was educated at the Royal Commercial Travellers School before studying at Keble College, Oxford, where he read law. He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1952 and thereafter practised as a barrister. Described as "one of the outstanding criminal barristers of his generation", he mostly acted as prosecutor and was involved in many high-profile trials. Notably, he prosecuted Cynthia Payne, the "Streatham madam" who was convicted of keeping a brothel.