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In 1948 Seldon Charles Forrester Farmer took up the role of Principal Probation Officer for [[Inner London Probation Service]],<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9SVEEAAAQBAJ |title=Volunteers in Prison After-Care: The Report of the Teamwork Associates Pilot Project |date=7 November 2021 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-000-43868-0}}</ref> a post he held until his retirement in 1970.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Page |first1=Martin |title=Crimefighters of London: a history of the origins and development of the London Probation Service, 1876 - 1965 |date=1992 |publisher=Inner London Probation Service |location=London |isbn=0951671103}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Statham |first1=Roger |title=The Golden Age of Probation: Mission V Market |date=24 September 2014 |publisher=Waterside Press}}</ref> Parliamentary Reports on invitation by Ministry in [[Brussels]] start to cement the international reach of his influence.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=drIxFYdzm8wC&q=%27s.%20c.%20f.%20farmer%27%20probation | title=Sessional Papers | date=1966 | publisher=H.M. Stationery Office }}</ref> Lecturing around the world as an authoritative speaker in multiple languages, together with extensive experience across a range of subjects made him influential around the world.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Farmer |first1=S C F |title=LE SYSTEME DE PROBATION AU ROYAUME-UNI |journal=Quarante Cinquième Annèe |date=July 1965 |volume=10 |pages=1041–1072 |url=https://bib.kuleuven.be/rbib/collectie/archieven/rdpc/1964-10.pdf |access-date=23 July 2024}}</ref>
International influence continued with the [[United Nations]] European Exchange Plan Seminar on the Institutional Treatment of Juvenile Offenders in [[Vienna]], 1954.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JYumbC-KnnsC&q=seldon%20farmer%20probation | title=European Exchange Plan Seminar on the Institutional Treatment of Juvenile Offenders, Vienna, 27 September to 9 October 1954 | date=1955 }}</ref> Following inaccurate portrayals of probation in some television programmes he became a special advisor to [[ Associated_Television |ATV]] in 1959 for related programming, in particular, [[Probation Officer (TV series)]]<ref>{{cite news |title=TV Probation Officer Vetted |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-guardian-journal-tv-probation-office/158350343/ |access-date=20 November 2024 |work=Newspapers.com |publisher=The Guardian Journal |date=3 December 1959 |page=10}}</ref>
Farmer was awarded the Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in the [[1961 New Year Honours]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Supplement to the London Gazette |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/42231/supplement/8900/data.pdf |website=The Gazette |access-date=26 February 2024 |date=31 December 1960}}</ref> list.
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