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Thomas Stanley Farrell

Thomas Stanley Farrell (born 23 September 1932) is a British hurdler. He represented the UK in the men's 400 metres hurdles at the 1956 Summer Olympics and in the 800m at the 1960 Olympics. He held the British record for the 400m hurdles from 1957 to 1963 and ran in a 4 x 800m relay team that broke the world record but it did not stand because it was a Commonwealth rather than a national team. In 1971 gained his Cambridge Blue against Oxford aged 38 and he was chaplain to the UK athletics team at the 1972 Munich Olympics. He taught at several schools including Dulwich College in South London where he was chaplain from 1974 to 1981 at which time he moved to Wonersh in Surrey where he became a vicar. He later worked at St Margaret Lothbury in the City of London where he took lunchtime services for staff of financial institutes and then moved to Burford in semi-retirement where he worked alongside the existing vicar for several years before retiring fully and moving to Long Crendon. He married Elizabeth Rushton in 1963 and had a daughter, Sarah b. 1964 and two sons James b. 1967 and Mark b. 1968, all of whom are still alive as of April 2018.