Walter Farquhar

Sir Walter Rockcliffe Farquhar, 3rd Baronet JP DL (4 June 1810 – 15 July 1900) was an English landowner of Scottish heritage.

Early life Farquhar was born on 4 June 1810 in St James's Street, London. He was the son of Sir Thomas Farquhar, 2nd Baronet and Sybella Martha Rockcliffe, a daughter of the Reverend Morton Rockcliffe. Ann Sybella Martha Farquhar (wife of George Clive, MP for Hereford who was a grandson of the 2nd Baron Archer), Caroline Eliza Farquhar (wife of Lt.-Gen. Hon. Charles Grey, son of the 2nd Earl Grey), and Harvie Morton Farquhar (who married Hon. Louisa Ridley-Colborne, daughter of the 1st Baron Colborne). and Sir Walter Farquhar, 1st Baronet, a prominent Scottish physician whose clientele included the Prince of Wales (later King George IV) and the Prime Minister William Pitt. Among his extended family were uncle Robert Townsend Farquhar, who was also created a baronet of Mauritius in 1821.

Career Upon the death of his father on 12 January 1836, he succeeded as the 3rd Baronet Farquhar. He held the office of High Sheriff of Surrey in 1859. He also served as a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex and Surrey and Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey. Sir Walter was also a member of the banking firm of Herries, Farquhar and Co. After his death, it was acquired by Margaret Greville who expanded it and extensively remodelled the home in 1906.

Personal life On 28 November 1837, Sir Walter married Lady Mary Octavia Somerset (1814–1906), daughter of Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort and Lady Charlotte Leveson-Gower (a daughter of the 1st Marquess of Stafford). Together, they lived at Cadogan House, London and were the parents of:

Sir Henry Thomas Farquhar, 4th Baronet (1838–1916), who married Hon. Alice Brand, daughter of Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden and Eliza Ellice (daughter of Gen. Robert Ellice by his wife Eliza Courtney, herself an illegitimate daughter of the 2nd Earl Grey by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire), in 1862. Walter Randolph Farquhar (1842–1901), who married Hon. Kathleen Bateson, daughter of Thomas Bateson, 1st Baron Deramore and Hon. Caroline Elizabeth Anne Rice-Trevor (a daughter of the 4th Baron Dynevor, MP for Carmarthenshire), in 1877. Arthur Farquhar (1843–1883), a Colonel in the Egyptian Army who was Chief of Staff to Hicks Pasha and was killed in Sudan. Harriet Blanche Elizabeth Farquhar (–1923), who married Lt.-Col. Hon. George Bertie, son of Montagu Bertie, 6th Earl of Abingdon and Elizabeth Lavinia Anne Harcourt (only daughter of George Harcourt, MP), in 1885. FitzRoy James Wilberforce Farquhar (1858–1941), who married Ada Cradock-Hartopp, daughter of Sir John Cradock-Hartopp, 4th Baronet and Charlotte Frances Howard, in 1884.

Sir Walter died on 15 July 1900 and his funeral was held at Great Bookham Churchyard, near Polesden Lacey. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Henry. His widow died on 7 September 1906.