Colonel Henry Farr, Essex Trained Bands, later royalist

Artwork by Graham Turner, from 'Edgehill 1642', copyright Osprey Publishing part of Bloomsbury

Personal details

Title

Unknown

Name

Henry Farr

Also known as

  • Hen Farr

Gender

Male

Described occupation

Occupation unknown

Military status

Officer

Military Rank

Colonel

Family details

In a petition to Charles II in 1682, Farr claimed to have seventeen surviving children to provide for. He lost the last of many wives in childbirth with his twenty-fourth child in 1682, at which time he declared he was aged 85! (TNA, SP29/421, fols 97 and 200; SP 44/71, fol. 67)