Frances Farrer
The Hon. Dame Frances Margaret Farrer DBE (17 March 1895 – 27 January 1977)[1] was Secretary of the NUSEC and later was named as General Secretary of the Women's Institute (NFWI) in 1929.
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 VCO in Surrey and was a member of the County Executive Committee. In 1926 she was appointed as one of the Regular Organisers of the NFWI. In 1929 she was promoted to Assistant Secretary of the NFWI, and later General Secretary, a post she held until her retirement in 1959. [citation needed]
Damehood
She was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1950 Birthday Honours.
References
- ^ National Portrait Gallery index
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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Farrer family tree
| Matthew White Ridley (1745–1813) | Sarah Colborne (1755–1806) | James Farrer (1751–1820) | Frances Loxham (c. 1760–1826) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Matthew White Ridley (1778–1836) | Nicholas William Ridley-Colborne (1779–1854) | Henrietta Elizabeth Ridley (1781–1853) | James William Farrer (1785–1863) | Thomas Farrer (1787–1833) | Cecilia Willis (1794–1867) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oliver William Farrer (1819–1876) | Emily Charlotte Hannah Cooke (1825–1902) | Matthew Thomas Farrer (1816–1889) | Mary Louisa Anson (1818–1856) | Thomas Henry Farrer (1819–1899) | Frances Erskine (1825–1870) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mabel Gertrude Smith (1863–1946) | Bryan Farrer (1858–1944) | Walter Farrer (1862–1934) | James Anson Farrer (1849–1925) | Elizabeth Georgina Reynell Pack (1853–1937) | Matthew George Farrer (1852–1928) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Horace Darwin (1851–1928) | Emma Cecilia "Ida" Farrer (1854–1946) | Claude Erskine Farrer (1862–1890) | Noel Maitland Farrer (1867–1929) | Mabel Elizabeth Elliot (1871–1947) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marjorie Laura Pollock (1895–1981) | Walter Leslie Farrer (1900–1984) | Reginald John Farrer (1880–1920) | Evelyn Mary Spring-Rice (1863–1898) | Thomas Cecil Farrer (1859–1940) | Evangeline Knox (1871–1968) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Charles Matthew Farrer (born 1929) | Cecil Claude Farrer (1893–1948) | Frances Margaret Farrer (1895–1977) | Oliver Thomas Farrer (1904–1954) | Anthony Thomas Farrer (1910–1964) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sources: The Farrer family: Pearce, Ken. North Craven Heritage Trust
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