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Fairfax's coat of arms. Thomas Fairfax was born on 22 October 1693 in Leeds Castle, Kent.The castle had been owned by his maternal ancestors since the 1630s. [2] Fairfax was the son of Thomas Fairfax, 5th Lord Fairfax of Cameron and Catherine Colepeper, the daughter of Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper.
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.
Greenway Court is a historic country estate near White Post in rural Clarke County, Virginia.The property is the site of the seat of the vast 18th-century land empire of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1693–1781), the only ennobled British colonial proprietor to live in one of the North American colonies.
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] His grandson Thomas was born on 17 January 1612 at Denton Hall, Yorkshire , to Ferdinano Fairfax and his first wife, Mary, daughter of Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave . [ 3 ]
After Lord Fairfax died in January 1710, his son Thomas, the 6th Lord, inherited the title and his five-sixths shares in the Northern Neck. In May, his grandmother died leaving the new Lord Fairfax her one-sixth share. Because he was only sixteen years old at the time, the affairs of the Proprietary fell to his mother, Lady Catherine Fairfax.
White Post is located at the crossroads of White Post Road and Berrys Ferry Road off Lord Fairfax Highway (U.S. Route 340). In the 1730s, Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1693–1781), the major landowner in the lower Shenandoah Valley through an inheritance from his mother Catherine Culpeper, Lady Fairfax, settled here and built ...