Jump to content

Edwin Farley

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Kaliforniyka (talk | contribs) at 20:18, 3 April 2019. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Sir Edwin Wood Thorp Farley MBE (1864[1] – 9 January 1939) was Mayor of Dover, Kent, England, from 1913 to 1919.[2]

Farley was born in 1864 in Dover, Kent.[3] He went to sea when he was twelve years old and sailed to India and China many times. He served on Dover Town Council for 27 years. For his services to Dover during the First World War he was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1918 and knighted in the 1920 New Year Honours.[4]

References

  1. ^ Biography, Who Was Who
  2. ^ Obituary, The Times, 10 January 1939
  3. ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915
  4. ^ "No. 31712". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1919. p. 2.


Flag of EnglandPolitician icon

This article about a mayor in England is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edwin_Farley&oldid=890828948"