Edward Haywood-Farmer [also known as Edward Haywood Farmer*] was born in Wigginton, Staffordshire, England on 13 December 1871. He was articled to Josiah Mander (1840?-1910) in Northampton in 1889 before moving to Birmingham. In 1898 he began working ass an assistant to Herbert Tudor Buckland (1869-1951). The following year he joined Buckland in partnership as Buckland & Farmer [also known as as H.T. Buckland & E. Haywood-Farmer and as Buckland & Haywood Farmer].
Buckland appears to have been the lead architect in the partnership and only Haywood-Farmer's own house in Sutton Coldfield is attributed solely to him.
In 1914 William Haywood (1877-1957) joined the partnership and following the death of Haywood-Farmer in 1917 the practice was renamed Buckland & Haywood.
Haywood-Farmer was elected a Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (LRIBA) in 1911. His address was given as 25a Paradise Street, Birmingham in 1906; Bracebridge Road, Sutton Coldfield and Norwich Chambers, Congreve Street, Birmingham in 1911 and 1914. He died in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire on 17 May 1917.
* His name is given as Edward Haywood Farmer in the 1911 England Census, however, professionally he was usually known as Edward Haywood-Farmer
Works by Buckland & Farmer included a shop and four houses, Bracebridge Street, Birmingham for J. White Elkington (1896); The Navigation Inn public house, Bromford, Erdington, for Ind Coope & Co. (1898); Two shops and four houses, Cherrywood Road, Bordesley Heath, Birmingham for O. Larkin Smith (1898); Handsworth New Road Council School, Handsworth, Birmimgham (1900); George Dixon Council Secondary Schools, City Road, Birmingham and George Dixon Council School, City Road, Birmingham (1904); Manual Training Centre for Chequers Walk Board School, Birmingham (1906); Village for mainenance workers, including new school, for Birmingham Corporation, Elan Valley, Wales (1906-09); Women's Hotel, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham (1907); Mission rooms for Rev. R. W. Stephenson, St. Hilda's, Warley, Sandwell (1907); Curator's House for the Edgbaston Assembly Rooms, Hagley Road, Edgbaston (1908); Club house for Harborne Golf Club, Harborne Land, Birmingham (1909); Barnsley High School, Huddersfield Road, Barnsley, Yorkshire (1909); Prince Henry's High School, Victoria Avenue, Evesham, Worcestershire (1909); Arthur Charles Street Council School, Nechells, Birmingham (1910); Sladefield Road Council School and caretaker's house, Ward End, Birmingham (1910); Cherrywood Road Council School, Bordesley Green, Birmingham (1911); St. Benedict Road Council School, Small Heath, Birmingham (1911); Club for Indoor Sports Ltd., Suffolk Street, Birmingham (1911); Factory for J. Walker & Sons, Oxford Street, Birmingham (1911); Municipal offices for the City of Coventry, Earl Street, Coventry, Warwickshire (1911); Houses at Gidea Park, Romford Garden Suburb, Essex (1911); Shop for the Electric Ordnance & Co., Cheston Road, Birmingham (1913); Pavilion for Harborne Golf Club, Harborn Lane, Birmingham (1914); St. Hugh's College, St. Margaret's Road, Oxford (1914-16); Dining hall, stables, garage, cycle house and drainage for Kynoch Ltd., Wellhead Lane, Birmingham (1915); Premises for H. Taylor, Argyle Street, Acock's Green, Birmingham (1916).
See also: List of Architectral Works of Buckland and Farmer in Worsfold, Mary. ‘Buckland and Farmer’ pp. 519-524 [Bibliography below]
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
‘Obituary’. RIBA Journal vol.25, 1917-18 pp. 14-21
Worsfold, Mary. ‘Buckland and Farmer’ in Birmingham's Victorian and Edwardian Architects, edited by Phillada Ballard. Wetherby: Oblong Creative Ltd. for the Birmingham and West Midlands Group of the Victorian Society, 2009, pp. 499-525