Michael Walter Farr (1924-2009)

摘要

Michael was the second son of Paul and Elsie Farr of Claygate, Surrey. He attended King's College School, Wimbledon, from where he obtained an exhibition to Peterhouse in 1942. As was common in the Second World War, his time in Cambridge was split and his degree was completed after wartime service in the Royal Navy. He gained a BA in Modern Languages (a 2:1 in French and German) in 1948. He received an MA in History at the University of Birmingham in December 1959. His thesis on the 'Accounts and Surveys of the Wiltshire Lands of Adam de Stratton, 1269-1289' was published by the Wiltshire Record Society, Devizes, 1959, v. 14. He became an FRHistS in 1960 and FSA in 1968.