Through his son Charles, who died a captain in the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, he was a grandfather of Charles Henry Farrington (1794–1828), who became a captain in the 31st Regiment of Foot, and succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his grandfather in 1823. The 2nd Baronet, who fought in the Battle of Talavera and the Battle of Waterloo, died in India, unmarried, at age thirty-three.