{"id":2737,"date":"2025-12-07T22:47:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T22:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/?page_id=2737"},"modified":"2025-12-07T22:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T22:50:18","slug":"john-milnes-favell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/john-milnes-favell\/","title":{"rendered":"John Milnes Favell"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2737\" class=\"elementor elementor-2737\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-269828ee elementor-reverse-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"269828ee\" data-element_type=\"section\" id=\"service-1\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1934ea0\" data-id=\"1934ea0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-406bba84 elementor-reverse-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"406bba84\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-4f9cba7b\" data-id=\"4f9cba7b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-498262db elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"498262db\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">John Milnes Favell<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4e511c4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4e511c4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>John Milnes Favell<\/strong> became a Mining Engineer and like his father, was a member of the Volunteer \/ Territorial forces.\u00a0 By 1910 he was working in Malaysia and at the age of 32 was married in Singapore to Florence Danvers McCullagh, the daughter of Dr McCullagh of Bishop Auckland, Durham.<\/p><p>After the outbreak of the Great War, John returned to Britain and in 1915 became a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Lieutenant in the Durham Light Infantry, and was later attached to the Royal Engineers and served in France.\u00a0 At the end of the war, he received three campaign medals.\u00a0 The 1915 Star, War medal, and Victory medal.<\/p><p>In 1919 he left England on the P&amp;O ship \u2018Nagoya\u2019 headed for Penang to be reunited with his wife and return to work as a Rubber Planter in Malaysia. John was now 41.<\/p><p>It wasn\u2019t until March 1927 that John and his wife Florence returned to England for a visit, travelling via Aden to Plymouth, bringing with them their 5 year old son Timothy and giving his father\u2019s Weybridge address as their destination.\u00a0 John\u2019s occupation was given as a Civil Servant of the Federated Malay States.<\/p><p>After returning to Malaysia they finally returned to England in 1932, initially living in Oxford before settling in a property named \u2018byways\u2019 in Milton Lilbourne, near Pewsey in Wiltshire.\u00a0 By 1959 when he took a trip to Madeira he described himself on the passenger list as retired\u00a0<\/p><p>John died at Waverley Abbey House, Farnham, Surrey, on the 18<sup>th<\/sup> June 1968.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-24189298\" data-id=\"24189298\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Milnes Favell John Milnes Favell became a Mining Engineer and like his father, was a member of the Volunteer \/ Territorial forces.\u00a0 By 1910 he was working in Malaysia and at the age of 32 was married in Singapore to Florence Danvers McCullagh, the daughter of Dr McCullagh of Bishop Auckland, Durham. 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