Notes
The school website (see References) provides this biography: 'Robert Stanley Farran was born on 9 January 1867 in Surbiton, Surrey, the sixth child of Robert Farran and Eliza Gibson Thornhill. He was at Charterhouse [Weekites] 1880-1882. He was an accomplished rower and competed in the winning London Eight for the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in 1890; he was a member of Leander Club. He joined the Imperial Light Horse and was killed at the Battle of Elandslaagte on 21 October 1899. He was the first Old Carthusian to be killed in action during the Boer War.'