Background
Farquharson was born at Brighton and became the owner of a large estate at Eastbury House, Tarrant Gunville (near Blandford Forum in Dorset).
Farquharson was born at Brighton and became the owner of a large estate at Eastbury House, Tarrant Gunville (near Blandford Forum in Dorset).
He was a keen breeder of Newfoundland dogs and had a pack of one hundred and twenty five. In 1891, an unnamed West of England Member of Parliament, now believed to have been Henry Richard Farquharson, was mentioned in a newspaper article as claiming that Jack the Ripper, the infamous murderer in the impoverished Whitechapel District in the East End of London, was the son of a surgeon and that he committed suicide after he had committed murder of Mary Jane Kelly on the night of 9 November 1888. lieutenant is believed that the reference was to Montague John Druitt, a fellow West County man, who committed suicide at the end of November 1888 and whose body was retrieved from the Thames at Chiswick a month later.
He died on 19 April 1895, in the Red Sea, on a voyage home from Colombo, Ceylon.
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He was elected at the 1885 general election as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for West Dorset, and held the seat until his death.