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Farrington was born, the son of a clergyman, on 6 April 1908, at Dunmurry, Company Antrim and educated first at the Belfast Royal Academy.
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On leaving school, he tried to join the Army but was turned down because of colour blindness. He subsequently qualified as a marine radio operator and joined the Merchant Navy. After serving on P & O liners and cargo ships he began his Antarctic career as part of the Discovery Committee, voyaging south to the coasts of Enderby Land, Kemp Land and Mac.
Robertson Land in Australian Antarctic Territory.
In addition to his radio duties Farrington took charge of producing the ship"s journal Pelagic News. After the outbreak of war, Farrington became an Air Ministry inspector based at Metropolitan-Vickers in Manchester, until he was summoned to London for secondment to Operation Tabarin, under the overall command of Lieutenant-Cdr James Marr.
Based on Deception Island, in the South Shetlands, Farrington had expected to spend the winter of 1945-1946 at Hope Bay, but his sense of duty made him exchange places with a less experienced radio operator. On his return from the Antarctic in 1946, Farrington became a scientific officer with the Telecommunications Research Establishment at Malvern, moving two years later to the new electronics division at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell.
