Sir Basil Alexander Talbot McFarland, 2nd Baronet, CBE, ERD (18 February 1898 – 5 March 1986) was a Northern Irish soldier, businessman and Ulster Unionist Party politician.
Born in Derry, McFarland was educated at Bedford School and also in Brussels and Neuwied-on-Rhine, Germany.
He served in 1918 with the Artists Rifles, and in the Second World War served overseas, in North Africa, Sudan, Palestine and Italy with 9th Londonderry HAA Regiment RA (SR) and was Mentioned in Despatches when his battery (25 HAA Battery) was redeployed as infantry in the Salerno beachhead in September 1943.
He was a Commissioner of Irish Lights, an original member of the Northern Ireland Unemployment Assistance Board (to 1939), a Senator in the Parliament of Northern Ireland as Mayor of Derry, 1939-1940 and 1945–1950, a member of the Northern Ireland Air Advisory Council, 1946–1965, Chairman of Londonderry Port and Harbour Commissioners, 1952–1967, a member of the London Midland Area Board of the British Transport Commission, 1955–1961, and a trustee of Magee University College, Derry, 1962–1965.
He lived at Aberfoyle House, a small mansion that overlooks the Strand Road in the City of Derry (now part of the 'Magee Campus' of the University of Ulster).