Sir Anthony Farrington, 1st Baronet

General Sir Anthony Farrington, 1st Baronet (6 February 1742 – 3 November 1823) was a British Army officer of the Royal Artillery. He served in Gibraltar and in the American War of Independence.

Early life Farrington was born on 6 February 1742. He was the son of Lieutenant-colonel Charles Farrington, who entered the Royal Artillery as a matross in 1733, and Ann (née Crouche) Farrington. although the spelling has now changed. He was commandant at Woolwich from 1794 to 1797, and he commanded the artillery of the expedition to The Helder, under the Duke of York, in September 1799. On his return he was shipwrecked off Yarmouth.

Honors On 2 December 1818, Farrington was created a baronet in recognition of his services. In 1820, the University of Oxford gave him the honorary degree of D.C.L after sixty-eight years of military service.

Personal life

On 9 March 1766, he was married to Elizabeth Colden from New York. Elizabeth was the daughter of Alexander Colden and a granddaughter of Cadwallader Colden, the acting Colonial governor of New York. They had two sons and three daughters, including:

Elizabeth Anne Farrington, who married Capt. James Gilbert in 1798. Harriet Farrington (d. 1838), who married Lt. Gen. Walter Cliffe in 1794. Mary Sophia Farrington (d. 1860), who married Maj. Gen. Loftus Owen in 1824. Charles Colden Farrington (1770–1796), who married Caroline Boland. Henry Maturin Farrington (1778–1834), who married four times and became the 3rd Baronet in 1828.

Descendants Through his daughter Harriet, he was a grandfather of Anthony Loftus Cliffe, the High Sheriff of Wexford in 1897.