| Authorised form of name | Herschell; Farrer (1837 - 1899); 1st Baron Herschell |
| Dates | 1837 - 1899 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Brampton, Hampshire, England |
| Date of birth | 02 November 1837 |
| Place of death | Washington, District of Columbia, USA |
| Date of death | 01 March 1899 |
| Occupation | Barrister |
| Activity | Education:
University of Bonn; University of London; Lincoln's Inn. BA (1857)
Career:
Called to the Bar (1860); QC (1872); Recorder of Carlisle (1873-1880); MP for the City of Durham (1874-1885); Solicitor General (1880-1885); Lord Chancellor (1886); Privy Councillor (1884); Chancellor of the University of London (1893-1899)
Honours:
Kt 1880; Baron 1886; GCB 1893
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 21/01/1892 |
| Relationships | Son of Rev Ridley Herschell and his wife Helen, daughter of William Mowbray of Edinburgh; married (1876) Agnes Adela, daughter of Edward Leigh Kindersley of Clyffe House, Dorset; brother-in-law of Sir John Scott Burdon Sanderson (FRS 1867); died of a fractured pelvis |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
Vanity Fair 19 March 1881 |
| Code | NA3215 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1892/01 | Herschell, Farrer, 1st Baron Herschell: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/5/1203 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Right Honorable Lord Farrer Herschell, 46 Grosvenor Gardens | 26 January 1892 |
| NLB/10/93 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Right Honourable, Lord Farrer Herschell, Fellow of the Royal Society | 27 September 1894 |
| NLB/18/379 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 2 March 1899 |
| NLB/17/453 | Copy letter from Michael Foster and Arthur William Rucker, to Lord Farrer Herschell, Marquis of Ripon [George Frederick Samuel Robinson], Marquis of Dufferin and Ava [Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple Blackwood], Right Honourable John Morley | 3 November 1898 |