Gerald Farquaharson is a character appearing in the episode The Noble Art of the ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders.
The local aristocrat, he is Midsomer Morchard's Justice of the peace. He is out-going, engaging, and good humored, and everyone seems to like him including DCI Tom Barnaby, who tells DS Jones that Gerald "...is one of us."
The only person not won over by Gerald's ways is his son Sebastian, who approached their solicitor about gaining a power of attorney in order to save the estate from his father's disastrous gambling debts.
A collector of brass knuckles, he used a set to render his two male victims unconscious before smothering them, but did not, however, do the same to his woman victim. Something that finally set Barnaby on his trail. The killings all had to do with trying to recoup a bad debt, one rendered null when the bet was negated due to drug test failures. He acknowledged it was all for nought, and that the only relief is the fact he himself and his victims are not much of a loss for society.
Watching the police car taking him away, Tom Barnaby and DS Ben Jones acknowledge that Gerald managed to kill three people after getting his daughter-in-law pregnant, gambling away his family fortune and, especially, he fooled Tom himself, who concludes that Gerald is "...certainly not one of us at all".
Trivia[]
- The actor, Kevin McNally, also appeared as Orville Tudway in the episode Blood Will Out.
- In 1977, he played Drake Carne in the BBC production of Poldark opposite Jane Wymark as Morwenna Chynoweth Carne.