{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = General | name = Sir Anthony Farrington | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|Bt}} | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1742|2|6}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1823|11|3|1742|2|6}} | death_place = Blackheath, London, England | burial_place = | burial_label = | burial_coordinates = <!-- {{Coord|LAT|LONG|display=inline,title}} --> | allegiance = {{flag|Great Britain|23px}}<br>{{flag|United Kingdom|23px}} | branch = {{army|United Kingdom}} | service_years = 1755–1823 | rank = General | unit = Royal Artillery | commands = Royal Arsenal | battles = {{unbulleted list|American Revolutionary War<br>French Revolutionary Wars}} | battles_label = | awards = | memorials = | spouse = {{marriage|Elizabeth Colden|1766||reason=}} | relations = | other_work = | module = }} General '''Sir Anthony Farrington, 1st Baronet''' (6 February 1742 – 3 November 1823) was a British Army officer of the Royal Artillery. He served in Gibraltar and in the American War of Independence.
==Early life== Farrington was born on 6 February 1742. He was the son of Lieutenant-colonel Charles Farrington, who entered the Royal Artillery as a matross in 1733, and Ann (née Crouche) Farrington.<ref name="oxforddnb"/> His maternal grandfather was Anthony Crouche.
He entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, as a cadet on 3 March 1754, was appointed a lieutenant fireworker in 1755, and a second lieutenant the following year.
==Career== Farrington became a lieutenant-colonel in December 1782, colonel 1791, major-general 1795, lieutenant-general 1802 and a general in 1812. He served at Gibraltar from 1759 to 63 where he was promoted to captain-lieutenant, and at New York and elsewhere in America 1764–8 where he became a captain. Returning to New York in 1773, he continued to serve in America until May 1783. He was at Boston in 1774–76 including the Battle of Bunker's Hill, Brooklyn, Long Island, White Plains, the Battle of Brandywine, during the American War of Independence. He commanded the artillery at Plymouth in 1788–89.
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He was at Gibraltar in 1790–91 and there is a fortification there called Farrington's Battery that was named after him,<ref>[http://discovergibraltar.com/pages/mainlogo/mainfrm.htm Farrington's Battery (Willis')] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130905140025/http://discovergibraltar.com/pages/mainlogo/mainfrm.htm |date=5 September 2013 }}, DiscoverGibraltar, accessed 17 March 2013</ref> although the spelling has now changed. He was commandant at Woolwich from 1794 to 1797, and he commanded the artillery of the expedition to The Helder, under the Duke of York, in September 1799. On his return he was shipwrecked off Yarmouth.<ref name="oxforddnb"/>
Farrington was appointed commandant of the field-train department in 1802, and in 1805 president of a select committee of artillery officers. In 1805. he was appointed inspector-general of artillery with the rank and style of director of the field-train department of the ordnance.<ref name="oxforddnb">{{cite ODNB |title=Farrington, Sir Anthony, first baronet (1742–1823), army officer |language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/9196 |year=2004 }}</ref>
===Honors=== On 2 December 1818, Farrington was created a baronet in recognition of his services.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=17404 |date=3 October 1818 |page=1767}}</ref> In 1820, the University of Oxford gave him the honorary degree of D.C.L after sixty-eight years of military service.<ref name="Lodge1859">{{cite book |last1=Lodge |first1=Edmund |title=The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage and Baronetage: Containing the Family Histories of the Nobility |date=1859 |publisher=Hurst and Blackett |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_JC0BAAAAQAAJ/page/n590 677]–678 |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_JC0BAAAAQAAJ |accessdate=31 July 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
==Personal life== [[File:Lady farrington henry stubble.jpg|thumb|Elizabeth Colden, portrait by Henry Stubble]] On 9 March 1766, he was married to Elizabeth Colden from New York. Elizabeth was the daughter of Alexander Colden and a granddaughter of Cadwallader Colden, the acting Colonial governor of New York. They had two sons and three daughters, including:<ref name="Debrett's1916">{{cite book |title=Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage |date=1916 |publisher=Kelly's Directories |page=249 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ujg4TVs_3RkC&pg=RA1-PA249|language=en}}</ref>
* Elizabeth Anne Farrington, who married Capt. James Gilbert in 1798.<ref name="Genealogical1880">{{cite book |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire |date=1880 |publisher=Henry Colburn |page=476 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u6IaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA476|language=en}}</ref> * Harriet Farrington (d. 1838), who married Lt. Gen. Walter Cliffe in 1794.<ref name="Walford1864">{{cite book |last1=Walford |first1=Edward |title=The County Families of the United Kingdom, Or Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. 2. Ed. Greatly Enl |date=1864 |publisher=Hardwicke |page=211 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n9pv_1xLploC&pg=PA211|language=en}}</ref> * Mary Sophia Farrington (d. 1860), who married Maj. Gen. Loftus Owen in 1824.<ref name="Miscellanea1888">{{cite book |title=Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica |date=1888 |publisher=Hamilton, Adams, and Company |page=374 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uFRIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA374|language=en}}</ref> * Charles Colden Farrington (1770–1796), who married Caroline Boland.<ref name="Anthologia1794">{{cite book |title=Anthologia Hibernica: Or Monthly Collections of Science, Belles-lettres, and History ... |date=1794 |publisher=R. E. Mercier |page=77 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nfk1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA77|language=en}}</ref> * Henry Maturin Farrington (1778–1834), who married four times and became the 3rd Baronet in 1828.<ref name="Gentleman's1834"/>
Farrington died on 3 November 1823, at his home in Blackheath.<ref>{{DNB|wstitle=Farrington, Anthony}}</ref>
===Descendants=== Through his daughter Harriet, he was a grandfather of Anthony Loftus Cliffe, the High Sheriff of Wexford in 1897.<ref name="Walford1864"/>
Through his son Charles, who died a captain in the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, he was a grandfather of Charles Henry Farrington (1794–1828), who became a captain in the 31st Regiment of Foot, and succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his grandfather in 1823.<ref name="oxforddnb"/> The 2nd Baronet, who fought in the Battle of Talavera and the Battle of Waterloo, died in India, unmarried, at age thirty-three.<ref name="Gentleman's1834">{{cite book |title=The Gentleman's Magazine |date=1834 |publisher=R. Newton |page=650 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dkBDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA650|language=en}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== *[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N13922970 Farrington, Sir Anthony (1742–1823) 1st Baronet General] at The National Archives.
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