Henry George Farmer (17 January 1882 – 30 December 1965) was a British musicologist, orientalist and conductor.
[2] His father, also Henry George Farmer (1848–1900), was stationed with the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment of the British Army.
[4] An earlier Henry Farmer (1819–1891) had composed popular liturgy – Mass in B-flat and concertos.
[5] Farmer grew up in a disciplinarian family and part of an Anglo-Irish community in the Irish Midlands.
He studied under Thomas Hunter Weir, Professor of Oriental Languages at University of Glasgow.