Maurice St Leger Farmer (abt. 1780 - 1817)

Born about 1780 in Kildare, Ireland

Husband of Marguerite (Power) Gardiner — married 7 Mar 1804 in Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland

Died 21 Oct 1817 at about age 37 in King's Bench Prison, London, England

Biography

Capt. Maurice St Leger Farmer, eldest son of Poplar Hall, co. Kildare, Ireland. Entered the army in Feb 1795; on half pay in1802, obtained his company on 9th July 1803. Capt. of the 47th Regmt. His name is not in the Army list in 1806 in that Regiment. Lord Caledon was his Colonel. "Captain Farmer fell into a dispute with his colonel, Lord Caledon, and in the course of it he drew his sword on his commanding officer. The court-martial which was convened to try him would probably have had him shot were it not for the very general belief that he was insane. So he was simply cashiered and obliged to leave the service and betake himself elsewhere."

married 7 Mar 1804 in Old St Mary's Church, Clonmel

Captain Maurice St. Leger Farmer, an English officer whose drunken habits finally brought him as a debtor to the King's Bench Prison, where he died by falling out of a window in October 1817. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ "The literary life and correspondence of the Countess of Blessington" by R. R. Madden vol 1 p 34-5 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=miun.adh4821.0001.001;view=1up;seq=44

• http://genealogy.links.org/links-cgi/readged?/home/ben/camilla-genealogy/current+c-farmer202+2-2-0-1-0

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Gardiner,_Countess_of_Blessington