Paternal Family Tree: Farquhar
In 1835 [his father] Walter Townsend-Farquhar 2nd Baronet [aged 25] and [his mother] Erica Catherine Mackay were married. They had five children.
On 19th May 1844 Horace Farquhar 1st Earl Farquhar was born to Walter Townsend-Farquhar 2nd Baronet [aged 34] and Erica Catherine Mackay.
On 18th June 1866 [his father] Walter Townsend-Farquhar 2nd Baronet [aged 56] died. His son [his brother] Eric [aged 30] succeeded 3rd Baronet Farquhar of Mauritius.
The London Gazette 26338. Whitehall, October 25, 1892. THE Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the dignity of a Baronet of the said United Kingdom unto Horace Brand Townsend-Farquhar [aged 48], of Cavendish-square, in the parish of Saint Marylebone, in the county of London, Esq., and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.
The London Gazette 26930. Whitehall, January 17, 1898. THE Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the dignily of a Baron of the said United Kingdom unto Sir Horace Brand Town send-Farquhar [aged 53], Bart, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Farquhar, of Saint Marylcbone, in the county of London.
The London Gazette 27318. 28th May 1901. To be Knight Commanders.
Horace Brand Townsend [aged 57], Lord Farquhar.
Frederick Treves, Esq., C.B.
The London Gazette 30150. Whitehall, June 26, 1917. The King, has been pleased, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bear ing date the 21st instant, to confer the dignity of a Viscount of the said United Kingdom upon the Right Honourable Horace Brand [aged 73], Baron Farquhar, GCVO, Lord Steward of the Household, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style and title of Viscount Farquhar, of Saint Marylebone, in the county of London.
The London Gazette 32776. Whitehall, December 9, 1922. Letters Patent have passed the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland creating the undermentioned Earldoms, Viscountcies and Baronies:
The Right Honourable Frederick Edwin [aged 50], Viscount Birkenhead, to be Viscount Furneaux, of Charlton, in the County of Northampton, and Earl Of Birkenhead. [Margaret Eleanor Furneaux Countess of Birkenhead [aged 44] by marriage Countess Birkenhead.]
The Right Honourable Horace Brand [aged 78], Viscount Farquhar, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., late Lord Steward of the Household, to be Earl Farquhar.
The Right Honourable Arthur Hamilton, Baron Lee of Fareham, G.B.E., K.C.B., to be Viscount Lee of Fareham, of Bridport, in the County of Dorset.
William Hesketh [aged 71], Baron Leverhulme, to be Viscount Leverhulme, of The Western Isles, in the Counties of Inverness and Ross and Cromarty.
The Right Honourable Francis Bingham Mildmay to be Baron Mildmay Of Flete, of Totnes, in the County of Devon.
The Right Honourable Sir Joseph Paton Maclay, Baronet, to be Baron Maclay, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark.
The Right Honourable Sir Edward Alfred Goulding, Baronet, to be Baron Wargrave, of Wargrave Hall, in the County of Berks. Sir John Henry Bethell, Baronet, to be BARON BETHELL, of Romford, in the County of Essex.
On 30th August 1923 Horace Farquhar 1st Earl Farquhar [aged 79] died unmarried at his home 7 Grosvenor Square, Belgravia. Earl Farquhar, Viscount Farquhar of Saint Marylebone in London, Baron Farquhar of Saint Marylebone in London and Baronet Townsend-Farquhar of Cavendish Square in Saint Marylebone in London extinct. In his will he left many large legacies to his friends, including members of the Royal Family, but although his estate was assessed for probate at £400,000 the entire sum was taken up by debts, leaving nothing and revealing that Farquhar had been an undisclosed bankrupt.
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Farquhar
Great x 1 Grandfather: Walter Farquhar 1st Baronet
Great x 3 Grandfather: Reverend Walter Turing
Great x 2 Grandmother: Katherine Turing
Grandfather: Robert Townsend Farquhar 1st Baronet
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Stevenson
father: Walter Townsend-Farquhar 2nd Baronet
Grandmother: Maria Frances Geslip de Lautour
Horace Farquhar 1st Earl Farquhar
Grandfather: Eric Mackay 7th Lord Reay
mother: Erica Catherine Mackay