Sir Richard Farington, 1st Baronet (c. 1644 – 7 August 1719) was an English Whig politician who sat in the English House of Commons between 1681 and 1701 and in the British House of Commons between 1708 and 1719.

He was commissioner for inquiry into recusancy fines in 1687 and was appointed Justice of the Peace in May 1688.

In December 1697 he was created a baronet, of Chichester in the County of Sussex.

He was re-elected MP for Chichester at the 1708 British general election.

[4] He was returned as a Whig MP for Chichester at the 1715 British general election and voted with the government until his death.