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THOMAS FAIRFAX

Thomas Fairfax was an English soldier. He was born in 1611 or 1612 at Denton, Yorkshire and died in 1671. The son of Ferdinando Fairfax, after serving in the Netherlands with some reputation he returned to England, and as a Parliamentary general he assisted his father in his Civil War campaigns in the north and in 1642 he was appointed general of the horse, and two years later held a chief command in the army sent to co-operate with tho Scots. He was prominent at the Battle of Naseby in 1645. He resigned shortly after the execution of Charles I and in 1659 went to The Hague to invite Charles II to return.

Thomas Fairfax, sixth Baron Fairfax, was an English landowner, friend and patron of George Washington. He was born in 1691 and died in 1782. He left England to an inherited estate of over five million acres in Virginia, America, where he lived from 1745 until 1782.
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