William Stamps Farish III (born March 17, 1939) is an American businessman and a former US ambassador to the UK from 2001 until 2004.

His father, Army Lt. William Stamps Farish Jr., died in a training flight near Waxahachie, Texas, when he was 4 years old.

When Bush moved to Texas in 1948, it was the Farish connection that gave him his start in his career in the oil industry.

During that unsuccessful campaign, Farish claimed to have been the first man to whom Bush confided his ultimate aim was to be president one day.

Farish & Co. investment firm, he managed the blind trust that Bush had to set up when he became vice-president in the Eighties.

[2] A breeder of thoroughbred racehorses, in 1979 Farish bought the 240 acres that had been Bosque Bonita Farm in Versailles, Kentucky.

[15] In 2019, Farish was voted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame as one of its esteemed Pillars of the Turf.

[6][14][20][21][excessive citations] The United Kingdom newspaper The Guardian commented on his low profile during the period leading up to the Iraq War.

[2] Laura Farish, one of his daughters, worked in the White House as one of George H. W. Bush's scheduling aides.