Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron (17 January 1612 – 12 November 1671) was an English politician, military officer and peer who fought in the...
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Civil War. Thomas Fairfax may also refer to: Thomas Fairfax (Walton) (died 1505), father of Thomas Fairfax (Gilling) Thomas Fairfax (Gilling) (died 1520)...
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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...
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Iroquoian Native American tribe. The city derives its name from Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, who was awarded 5,000,000 acres (20,000 km2) of...
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Fairfax County, officially the County of Fairfax, is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. With a population of 1,150,309 as of the 2020 census, it...
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Sir Thomas Fairfax (c. 1475 – 1520) was an owner of Gilling Castle, near Gilling East, North Riding of Yorkshire, England. Fairfax's father, also named...
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Thomas Fairfax, 5th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (16 April 1657 – 6 January 1710) was an English military officer, politician and peer. Fairfax was born on...
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Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron (c. 1560 – 3 May 1640) was an English military officer, diplomat, politician and peer. Thomas Fairfax was...
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Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1560–1640) Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1584–1648) Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of...
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Thomas Fairfax, D.D. (1656–1716), was an English Jesuit. Fairfax was born in Yorkshire. He studied in the college of the Jesuits at St. Omer, entered the...
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Anne, Lady Fairfax (born Anne Vere, also known as Anne Fairfax; 1617/1618 – 1665) was an English noblewoman. She was the wife of Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord...
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son, Thomas Fairfax, commanded the New Model Army. He was born in Yorkshire, the eldest son of Ellen Aske and Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron...
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Virginia that upheld the original title of land granted to Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, over what was known as the Northern Neck of Virginia...
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Thomas Fairfax was an Anglican Archdeacon in Ireland in the 17th century. Fairfax was the Rector of Clones. He was Treasurer of Dromore from 1635 to 1638;...
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Thomas Brian McKelvie Fairfax, 13th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (14 May 1923 – 8 April 1964) was a British Army officer, Conservative politician and peer....
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title of Lord Fairfax of Cameron, succeeding his father, Thomas Fairfax, 13th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, in 1964. Nicholas John Albert Fairfax was born 4 January...
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of Sir Thomas Fairfax the elder, of Denton in Yorkshire, and a half-brother of Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1560–1640). Fairfax lived at...
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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...
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grandfather of Thomas Fairfax (1762 – 1846), 9th Lord Fairfax of Cameron. The 9th Lord's predecessor, Thomas Fairfax (1732 – 1802), 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron...
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Northamptonshire. The Parliamentarian New Model Army, commanded by Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, destroyed the main Royalist army under Charles...
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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...
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two-month siege of Pembroke. Sir Thomas Fairfax defeated a Royalist uprising in Kent at the Battle of Maidstone on 1 June. Fairfax, after his success at Maidstone...
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Sir Thomas Fairfax (c. 1450 – 31 March 1505) was the first member of the Fairfax family to own Gilling Castle, near Gilling East, North Riding of Yorkshire...
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Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron. George William's mother Sarah died January 21, 1731, when he was only seven years old. At Lord Fairfax's...
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he was appointed commander of the New Model Army cavalry under Sir Thomas Fairfax, and played a key role in winning the English Civil War. The death of...
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senior commanders; in July 1644, a Parliamentarian force under Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell secured control of Northern England by victory at...
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Fairfax (1876-1948) Michael Fairfax (born 1953), English sculptor Robert Fairfax (disambiguation), several people: Robert Fairfax, 7th Lord Fairfax of...
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McNeill, grandson of Ferdinando Fairfax, and great-grandson of Bryan Fairfax, he was born at Mount Eagle, Virginia. Fairfax entered the Navy as a midshipman...
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officer prove ineffective at the Battle of Edgehill, he, along with Thomas Fairfax, sets up the New Model Army that eventually turns the tide against the...
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politician. He was the grandson of Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron. He was born the son of Henry Fairfax, of York, Rector of Bolton Percy,...
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