FARRER, THOMAS HENRY FARRER, 1ST BARON (1819-1899) , English civil servant and statistician, the son of a solicitor, was born in London on June 24, 1819, and was edu cated at Eton and Balliol college, Oxford. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1844, but retired from practice in the course of a few years. He entered the civil service in 1850, and in 1865 he was promoted to be one of the joint secretaries of the board of trade, of which he was permanent secretary from 1867 to 1886. In 1889 he was co-opted by the Progressives an alder man of the London County Council, of which he became vice chairman in 1890, but soon resigned because, being a strong in dividualist, he deprecated municipalization of public services. In 1893 he was raised to the peerage. From this time forward he devoted much of his energy to free trade propaganda. Farrer died at Abinger hall, Dorking, on Oct. II, 1899. His works include: The State in Relation to Trade (1883), Free Trade versus Fair Trade (1886), and Studies in Currency (1898).