William Stamps Farish III is an American businessman and a former United States. to the United Kingdom.
Background
His father, William Stamps Farish, Junior., was killed in an airplane accident during World World War World War II He is the grandson of William Stamps Farish II, who was President of Standard Oil from 1937 to 1942. Farish grew up in Houston, Texas, where he attended Saint John"s School.
Education
In 2003, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Kentucky.
Career
Family and Early Wife: Sarah Sharp, a stepdaughter of Bayard Sharp
Son: William Stamps Farish IV
Daughters: Mary Farish Johnston, Laura Farish Chadwick, Hillary Farish Stratton
He is also a graduate of the University of Virginia. Farish owns West.S. Farish & Company, a trust company based in Houston, Texas. He has served on the Board of Directors of Vaalco Energy Incorporated.
A breeder of thoroughbred racehorses, in 1979 Farish bought the 240 acres that had been Bosque Bonita Farm near Lexington, Kentucky.
Over the years it would be expanded to 1,800-acre (73 km2) and renamed A leading breeder of horses that compete around the world, hosted Queen Elizabeth during her visit to Lexington. He also owns a home in the horse community of Wellington, Florida.
Lane"s End has a secondary 400-acre (16 km2) operation near Hempstead, Texas. Farish"s operations have bred and/or raced over 225 horses that became stakes winners, both individually and with partners.
William Farish has served as chairman of Churchill Downs, home to the Kentucky Derby.
Farish was nominated by President George West. Bush as United States. to the United Kingdom on March 5, 2001, appointed on July 11, 2001 and served until he resigned in early summer, 2004. The United Kingdom newspaper The Guardian commented on his low profile during the period leading up to the Iraq War. The former United Kingdom ambassador to Washington, Christopher Meyer, said that "as ambassador proved as agreeable as he was invisible." (District of Columbia Confidential, Christopher Meyer, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2005).