Background
Faber was the eldest son of Charles Wilson Faber, of Northaw, a Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire and Mary Beckett, daughter of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet, and thus sister of the 1st Baron Grimthorpe.
Faber was the eldest son of Charles Wilson Faber, of Northaw, a Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire and Mary Beckett, daughter of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet, and thus sister of the 1st Baron Grimthorpe.
Their sister Mary Eliza married Edward Kennard and was a sporting novelist as Mrs Edward Kennard. Faber was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was a senior partner in Beckett′s Bank, Leeds and New York He was also Chairman of the English Country Bankers´ Association, Chairman of the Yorkshire Post, and Chairman of the London and North Western Railway.
He also served as Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire.
On 29 December 1905 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Faber, of Butterwick in the County of Lincoln, and thus did not stand for re-election in the January 1906 general election.
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In the 1900 general election he unsuccessfully contested Pudsey, but was elected a Member of Parliament for Andover in a by-election in August 1901, after the death of William Wither Beach.