that he still adhered to the doctrines of free trade as advocated by its earliest exponents. In 1898 he published his Studies in Currency. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1894 to 1896. Marriage and issue Farrer married twice, first in 1854 to Frances Erskine (1825–1870), daughter of the historian and orientalist William Erskine (1773–1852) and his wife, Maitland Mackintosh, daughter of Sir James Mackintosh by his first wife. They bore the following children: Hon. Emma Cecilia "Ida" Farrer (1854–1946), married Horace Darwin, son of Charles Darwin Hon. Thomas Cecil Farrer (1859–1940), married Evelyn Spring Rice, daughter of Hon. Charles Spring Rice Claude Erskine Farrer (1862–1890) Hon. Noel Maitland Farrer (1867–1929) Frances died on 15 May 1870. Farrer remarried in 1873 to his former wife's half-cousin, Katherine Euphemia Wedgwood (1839–1931), daughter of Hensleigh Wedgwood of the Wedgwood pottery family and his wife Fanny Mackintosh. Death Farrer died at Abinger Hall, Dorking, in 1899 and was buried at Brookwood Cemetery. He was succeeded in the title by his eldest son Thomas Cecil Farrer (1859–1940). References External links 1819 births 1899 deaths Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Liberal Party (UK) hereditary peers Members of London County Council Permanent Secretaries of the Board of Trade People educated at Eton College Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Presidents of the Royal Statistical Society Progressive Party (London) politicians Burials at Brookwood Cemetery Peers of the United Kingdom created by Queen Victoria