The second son of John Farmer, of West Hill House, Byron Hill, Harrow, the well-known Harrow School music master and afterwards Organist of Balliol College, Oxford, who died in 1901, and Marie Elizabeth Stahel, of Zurich. He matriculated at Balliol College on October 24th, 1885, and was an Exhibitioner of his college. He was educated at the London Hospital, where he was Receiving Room Officer, House Physician, and House Surgeon. Later he was Senior Resident Medical Officer of the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn Road. He lived at Oxford, and in 1894 was elected Radcliffe Travelling Fellow. On returning to Oxford he resided at 11 Beaumont Street, and was appointed Surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary in 1899 - a post he held until 1903 - Examiner in Human Anatomy to the University, and a member of the Board of Faculty of Medicine. He was later appointed Lichfield Lecturer in Surgery and was also Surgeon to the London and North-Western and the Great Western Railways. During the closing years of his life he was living at Silverspier, Queensland. He died in or before June, 1915. Publications: "Aseptic Surgery in Germany." - *Med. Mag.*, 1896, v, 240. "Case of Acute Intussusception: Laparotomy: Recovery." - *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1900, I, 1284. "Case of Supposed Foreign Body in the Pharynx." - *Ibid.*, I, 1405.