Rev. Robert Farquhar, Min. of Garoich

Biographical Summary

"Robert Farquhar, born 1699, son of John F. at Wester Coul, and Margaret Forbes ; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1718) ; licen. by Presb. of Kincardine O'Neil 4th Nov. 1724 ; ord. to Peterhead 21st July 1726 ; pres. by Sir James Elphinstone of Logie in June, trans, and adm. 18th Oct. 1738 ; died Father of the Church 4th Feb. 1787. He marr. 21st Jan. 1729, Katherine (died 7th Nov. 1798), daugh. of Walter Turing, min. of Rayne, and had issue —

• James, born 23rd Jan. and died 6th March 1731
• John, min. of Nigg, born 8th June 1732
• Ann, born 13th April 1734, died 12th Jan. 1825
• Katherine, born 17th Sept. 1735, died 23rd Dec. 1750
• Thomas, born 27th Aug. 1736, died 1801
• Margaret (twin), born 27th Aug. 1736, died 9th Oct. 1753
• Sir Walter, Bart., M.D., distinguished London physician, born 6th Oct. 1738, died 30th March 1819 [great-grandfather of Horace Brand Townsend - Farquhar, created a Baronet in 1892, raised to the Peerage as Baron Farquhar in 1898, and a Viscount in 1917, died 1923]
• Elizabeth, born 15th Nov. 1743, died 19th Nov. 1746
• Forbes (daugh.), born 3rd Nov. 1747, died 27th Feb. 1763
• Martha, born 21st Sept. 1751 (marr. Patrick Davidson, D.D., min. of Rayne)
• Robert, born 28th Feb. 1755, died while on an embassy from Bengal to the King of Berar 9th Oct. 1778."

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. VI, page 152