Farmer, Frank Quentery 1878 - 1955

Frank Quentery Farmer was born in Rock Ferry, Cheshire, England on 3 April 1878.  Nothing is known about his training as an architect. He was the brother of the architect Harold Quentery Farmer (1880-1948).  

From c.1899 to c.1920 F. Q. Farmer seems to have been a partner in the Birmingham practice H.T. Buckland & E. Haywood-Farmer (later renamed Haywood-Farmer and Buckland & Haywood), although his name did not appear in the title of the firm.

By the 1920s F. Q. Farmer had moved to London where he was in partnership with Percy Thomas Wilsdon and Guy Wood North in the architectural practice North, Robin & Wilsdon [Farmer's was never given in the title of the firm].  The partnership was dissolved in December 1933.  

Farmer set up his own practice in London in 1934 and soon after, formed a new partnership with Bernard Frankland Dark (1903-1972) as Farmer & Dark. A photograph of a dining room and lounge in a reconstructed apartment at Bryanston Court in London for Mrs. Harry Ewbank, designed by Frank Quentery Farmer and Frankland Dark is Illustrated in Decorative Art vol. 32, 1937 (p.77). The scheme featured two murals painted by Hans Feibusch and fabrics and carpets designed by Marion Dorn.

Farmer was a Member of the Society of Architects (MSA). In 1925 he was admitted a Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (LRIBA) and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1929.  

Farmer's address was given as 49, Ouseley Road, London in 1923; 35-39 Maddox Street, London in 1926; Townsend House, Grerycoat Place, Westminster, London in 1930; and 87 Buckingham Palace Road, London in 1935 and 1939.  He died in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire on 18 February 1955. Dark continued the firm with the name unchanged for several years after Farmer's death