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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 ]
In 1690 and 1695, he was a Member of Parliament generally supporting the Tory interest, although the modern concept of political parties did not yet apply. [2] He was able to sit in the English Parliament because his title was part of the Scottish peerage; after the 1707 Act of Union , Scottish peers were disqualified and he was required to ...
After a meeting near Newmarket, Suffolk on Friday 4 June 1647, they issued "A Solemne Engagement of the Army, under the Command of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax". Presented to Parliament on 8 June, it set out their grievances and explained the constitution of the Council, to make it clear these demands had wide-ranging support.
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, 1st Viscount Fairfax of Emley JP (1575 – 23 December 1636) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1626. He was created Viscount Fairfax in the Peerage of Ireland in 1629.
When Washington, the first US president, was 16, Lord Thomas Fairfax gave him his first job surveying Shenandoah Valley in Virginia and West Virginia, according to kenmore.org.. Surveyors measure ...
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.
Thomas Fairfax was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Fairfax of Denton, Yorkshire and Dorothy Gale, and was born at Bilbrough, Yorkshire.As a young man he saw military service in the Low Countries, where he commanded a company of foot under Sir Francis Vere.