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Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (22 October 1693 – 9 December 1781) was a British peer, military officer and planter. The only member of the British peerage to permanently reside in Britain's North American colonies, Fairfax owned the Northern Neck Proprietary in the Colony of Virginia, where he spent the majority of his life.
Thomas Fairfax was born at Denton Hall, halfway between Ilkley and Otley in the West Riding of Yorkshire, on 17 January 1612, the eldest son of Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron. (His family title of Lord Fairfax of Cameron was in the peerage of Scotland, then still independent from England, which was why he was able to sit in the ...
Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron. Lord Fairfax of Cameron is a title in the Peerage of Scotland.Despite holding a Scottish peerage, the Lords Fairfax of Cameron are members of an ancient Yorkshire family, of which the Fairfax baronets of The Holmes are members of another branch.
Of John and Sarah Fairfax's four children, Emily Fairfax, the eldest, born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, married Joseph Grafton Ross and together they had one child, a son, Elsey Fairfax Ross, who studied medicine at University College Hospital, London and practised in London and Brussels before returning to Sydney where he was an honorary physician at St Vincent's Hospital. [7]
Thomas Fairfax, 9th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1762–1846), was an American planter who also held a Scottish peerage. Along with his father, on 11 December 1799, he was among the last guests at Mount Vernon before George Washington died.
The Fairfax family is a prominent political and landowning family in English, Scottish, and American histories. ... Template:Fairfax family; Lord Fairfax of Cameron;
The American War of Independence was particularly hard on relatives of the Gedney family. Bartholomew Gedney (1640 – 1698) of Massachusetts, a magistrate at the Salem Witch Trials, was a great-great grandfather of Thomas Fairfax (1762 – 1846), 9th Lord Fairfax of Cameron.
On the accession of Charles I, Fairfax was again knight of the shire (MP) for Yorkshire in the parliament of 1625. He drew up a statement of his services, and on 4 May 1627 was created Lord Fairfax of Cameron in the Peerage of Scotland; the grant was facilitated by a payment of £1,500. Fairfax died 1 May 1640.
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