Leslie Farrer Explained

Honorific Prefix:Sir
Honorific Suffix:KCVO
Birth Date:1900 1, df=y
Education:Rugby School
Alma Mater:Balliol College, Oxford
Spouse:Marjorie Laura Pollock
Children:1
Known For:Private Solicitor to both King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II
Relatives:Sir Matthew Farrer (son)
Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth (father-in-law)

Sir Walter Leslie Farrer KCVO (30 January 1900 – 6 March 1984) was a British solicitor. He was Private Solicitor to both King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II. He married Marjorie Laura Pollock, daughter of Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth. They had one son, Sir Matthew Farrer (also a partner at Farrer & Co), and one daughter.

He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford.

He wrote a letter to the Times, about Ernest Gellner.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: A Ved Mehta reader: the craft of the essay . registration. 3. Leslie Farrer solicitor.. Yale University Press. 1998. 978-0-300-07561-8.