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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 189 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARON See also:THOMAS See also:HENRY See also:FARRER FARRER (1819-1899)  , See also:English See also:civil servant and statistician, was the son of See also:Thomas See also:Farrer, a See also:solicitor in See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn See also:Fields . See also:Born in See also:London on the 24th of See also:June 1819, he was educated at See also:Eton and Balliol See also:College, See also:Oxford, where he graduated in 184o . He was called to the See also:bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1844, but retired from practice in the course of a few years . He entered the public service in 185o as secretary to the See also:naval (renamed in 1853 the marine) See also:department of the See also:Board of See also:Trade . In 1865 he was-promoted to be one of the See also:joint secretaries of the Board of Trade, and in 1867 became permanent secretary . His See also:tenure of this See also:office, which he held for upwards of twenty years, was marked by many reforms and an energetic See also:administration . Not only was he an advanced Liberal in politics, but an uncompromising See also:Free-trader of the strictest school . He was created a See also:baronet for his services at the Board of Trade in 1883, and in 1886 he retired from office . During the same See also:year he published a See also:work entitled Free Trade versus See also:Fair Trade, in which he dealt with an economic controversy then greatly agitating the public mind . He had already, in 1883, written a See also:volume on The See also:State in its Relation to Trade . In 1888 he was co-opted by the Progressives an See also:alderman of the London See also:County See also:Council, of which he became See also:vice-chairman in 189o . His efficiency and ability in this capacity were warmly recognized; but in the course of See also:time divergencies arose between his See also:personal views and those of many of his colleagues .

The tendency towards socialistic legislation which became apparent was quite at variance with his principles of individual enterprise and responsibility . He consequently resigned his position . In 1893 he was raised to the See also:

peerage . From this time forward he devoted much of his See also:energy and leisure to advocating his views at the See also:Cobden See also:Club, the See also:Political See also:Economy Club,on the See also:platform, and in the public See also:press . Especially were his efforts directed against the opinions of the Fair Trade See also:League, and upon this and other controversies on economic questions he wrote able, clear, and uncompromising letters, which See also:left no doubt that he still adhered to the doctrines of free trade as advocated by its earliest exponents . In 1898 he published his Studies in Currency . He died at See also:Abinger See also:Hall, See also:Dorking, on the 11th of See also:October 1899 . He was succeeded in the See also:title by his eldest son Thomas See also:Cecil (b . 1859) .

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