Originally of Oldbury, co. Warwick; the son of Rowland Okeover, he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and inherited Okeover in Staffordshire. He was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1800.

REFERENCES TO Haughton Farmer Okeover:

Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 9 December 1836 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854)

Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 1 March 1837 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854)