Thomas Farrer, 2nd Baron Farrer

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Thomas Cecil Farrer, 2nd Baron Farrer (25 October 1859 – 12 April 1940) was a British nobleman. He was the eldest son of Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer, and Frances Erskine. He served for many years on the board of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, a forerunner of the London Underground. He owned Abinger Hall, a wooded smallholding with a house in Abinger, Surrey. In the 1880s his family also lived at 27 Bryanston Square, London.

Farrer married twice. His first wife was Evelyn Spring Rice, whom he married in 1892. They had three children: Cecil Claude Farrer (born 1893), Frances Margaret Farrer (born 1895), and Katharine Dianthe Farrer (born 1896), who married Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges. He remarried in 1903 to Evangeline Knox. They had two children: Oliver Thomas Farrer and Anne Lucy Farrer (born 1908).