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Fairfax House is a Georgian townhouse located at No. 27, Castlegate, York, England, near Clifford's Tower and York Castle Museum. It was probably built in the early 1740s for a local merchant and in 1759 it was purchased by Charles Gregory Fairfax, 9th Viscount Fairfax of Emley , who arranged for the interior to be remodelled by John Carr .
Renaissance composer Robert Fayrfax (Fairfax) was a native of the village. Fairfax House, the most prominent and grand property in the village, was home to the Fairfax Family. In the 1870s Wilson described Deeping Gate as: a hamlet in Maxey parish, Northampton; at the boundary with Lincoln, 1 mile SE of Market-Deeping. Real property, £1, 867 ...
Thomas Fairfax was born to a Yorkshire family that could trace its descent to the 13th century. [1] His grandfather, Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1560-1640) fought under the Earl of Essex in the defense of the Protestant Netherlands against Spain. [2]
Thus, Thomas Fairfax was able to claim the property in 1489, and it was his great-grandson, Sir William Fairfax, who succeeded in 1571, and undertook the rebuilding of the old 14th-century house. Building on top of the medieval walls and leaving the ground floor intact, he rebuilt the first and second floors, adding at the back (east) a ...
Sir Thomas Fairfax (c. 1450 – 31 March 1505) [1] was the first member of the Fairfax family to own Gilling Castle, near Gilling East, North Riding of Yorkshire, England. He was born Thomas Fairfax of Walton and was presumably a supporter of the House of York in the Wars of the Roses.
In his time (c. 1651) the estate was the inspiration for Andrew Marvell's Upon Appleton House, a significant country house poem. Marvell was tutor to Thomas Fairfax's daughter, Mary. [ 3 ] After the death of Mary (who had married The 2nd Duke of Buckingham ) in 1704 the estate was eventually sold c. 1711 to Alderman William Milner of Leeds who ...
Based on the 1349 marriage between Margaret de Etton and their ancestor, a third Thomas Fairfax of Walton, [1] the elder Thomas Fairfax successfully claimed the ownership of the Gilling Estate during two inquisitions, the first of which was in 1489. [2] The elder Thomas Fairfax married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Sherburne of Lancashire. [3]
A noble house is an aristocratic family or kinship group, either currently or historically of national or international significance, [clarification needed] and usually associated with one or more hereditary titles, the most senior of which will be held by the "Head of the House" or patriarch.