Frances Farrer

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The Hon. Dame Frances Margaret Farrer

Life and career

The daughter of Thomas Farrer, 2nd Baron Farrer, a senior civil servant, and his first wife, Evelyn Spring Rice, Farrer ran the office on civil service lines. Meriel Withall, one of her successors, said "it was a model of [good] government".^{[citation needed]}

Partly through her family connections, she had a network of contacts which were very useful to NFWI as the organisation became increasingly active in lobbying government. A founder member, in 1920, and first secretary of Abinger Women's Institute, she later became Director of the Abinger Hall Estate Co. Later she worked as a

She was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1950 Birthday Honours.

References

External links

• Profile, nfwi.org.uk; retrieved 14 April 2016.

Sources

• "FARRER, Hon. Dame Frances (Margaret)", Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2007 retrieved 20 May 2011

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