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The Law Makers v the Law Breakers
Farndales on each side of the law
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This page has the following sections:
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The
Law Makers
·
The
Law Breakers
·
The
Smugglers
The Law Makers
Joseph Farndale (FAR00350B),
born on 27 April 1842, became a Police Sergeant in Middlesborough and later
Chief Constable of Leicester, Chesterfield, and Birmingham where amongst other
things, he was involved in a Jack the Ripper hoax and the Ledsam Street
dynamite conspiracy.
His nephew, also called
Joseph Farndale (FAR00463) born on
6 April 1864, became Chief
Constable of Margate, York and Bradford. Amongst other
things he was the inventor of the police box.
Thomas Henry Farndale (FAR00699)
became an Inspector in the Criminal Investigations Department in Surrey in the
1940s. He investigated crime during the Second World War (a real
life Foyle’s War) and continued to do so in the fifties.
William Farndale (FAR00369A) and
Peter Farndale (FAR00373)
were both solicitors’ clerks in Stockton.
The Law Breakers
The scale on
the other side was heavily weighted by the medieval Farndale poachers of Pickering and other places. They were perhaps the outlaws
who later gave rise to the Robin Hood
legends.
Smugglers Tales
For tales of
smugglers at the time of the Farndales of Kilton, see John Farndale’s writings. John
Farndale, ‘Old Farndale of Kilton’ (FAR00143) told
many a tale of smugglers and their daring adventures and hair breadth escapes.