William Watt Farrar
He was a medical practitioner
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William Watt Farrar was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire in 1875 the son of Joseph a doctor and the late Mary Farrar née Watt .
His father Joseph Farrar was born in 1841 at Halifax,Yorkshire, his mother Mary Watt was born in 1848 at Shotts, Lancashire, she died in 1907 aged 59 yrs, they were married on 28th December 1871 at Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland, they had a further son Joseph William Farrar born 1870.
William Watt was married to Nellie Spouncer who came from Gainsborough in Lincolnshire,they were married in Blackwell, Derbyshire in 1909 . He was educated at the Gainsborough Grammar school and went to Glasgow University where he took degrees in M B and Ch.B. He practised in Lancashire and in Devon before moving to Misterton where he was in private practice.
In the 1911 census the family are living at Misterton, he is 35 yrs and is a medical man he is living with his wife Nellie 35 yrs and a female servant.
William accepted a commission as Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps After serving for a time in Mesopotamia he was sent to India to run an army hospital In Bombay and it was while here he contracted cholera from which he died in August 1916.His name is commemorated on the Kirkee memorial in India
Information on William Watt Farrar has been provided courtesy of the Misterton and West Stockwith History Group additional infromation Peter Gillings
William Watt Farrar
Photo showing William Watt Farrar courtesy of the Misterton and West Stockwith history group
William Watt Farrar
Photo shows a newspaper article giving details of the life and death of William Watt Farrar, photo courtesy of the Misterton and West Stockwith history group
William Watt Farrar
Photo courtesy of the The War Graves Photographic Project
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William Watt Farrar
photo shows the Kirkee 1914 - 1918 memorial, India upon which William Watt Farrar's name is commemorated, photo courtesy of CWGC