Background
Farmery was the son of William Farmery, Rector of Heapham, Lincolnshire and his wife Cassandra Newland of Hackney.
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John Farmery
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Education
University of Oxford. Street John"s College.
Career
He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War. He was baptised at Springthorpe, Lincolnshire on 24 February 1591. He matriculated from Street John"s College, Cambridge at Easter 1607.
He was awarded Bachelor in 1611 and Master of Arts in 1614 and Doctor of Laws in 1620.
In 1624, he was incorporated at Oxford University. He was admitted as an advocate on 6 May 1637 and was chancellor of the diocese of Lincoln.
He received regimental command in the Royalist army in the civil war. Farmery died at the age of 56.
Farmery married and left a son also named John.
Membership
Short Parliament]
In April 1640, Farmery was elected Member of Parliament for Lincoln in the Short Parliament.
