Everything about Thomas Fairfax 6th Lord Fairfax Of Cameron totally explained
Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (
October 22,
1693 –
December 9,
1781) was the son of
Thomas Fairfax, 5th Lord Fairfax of Cameron and of Catharine, daughter of
Thomas Culpeper, 2nd Baron Culpeper of Thoresway. Various place names in
Northern Virginia and
West Virginia's
Eastern Panhandle are named after him—most notably
Fairfax County, Virginia.
Biography
Born at
Leeds Castle in
Kent,
England, Lord Fairfax was educated at
Oriel College, Oxford from
1710 to
1713. Afterwards, he held a commission in the Navy, and contributed to
Addison's Spectator. Upon succeeding to his title and to the family estates in Virginia's
Northern Neck Proprietary between the
Rappahannock and
Potomac Rivers, inherited from his mother, and a great portion of the
Shenandoah and
South Branch Potomac valleys, Lord Fairfax moved to Virginia between
1735 and
1737 to inspect and protect his lands. The northwestern boundary of his Northern Neck Proprietary was marked by the
Fairfax Stone at the headwaters of the
North Branch Potomac River.
In
1738, about 30 farms were established as part of Lord Fairfax's 9,000 acre
Patterson Creek Manor near present day
Burlington,
West Virginia. Returning in
1747, he first settled at
Belvoir (the ruins of which lie on the grounds of
Fort Belvoir) and later moved to the
Shenandoah Valley in
1752, fixing his residence at Greenway Court near White Post in Clarke County. Here, Lord Fairfax lived in a style of liberal hospitality, frequently indulging in the diversion of the
chase. He served as county lieutenant and as
justice of the peace for
Frederick County which then included Clarke.
Lord Fairfax was the only resident
peer in
colonial America. In
1748, he made the acquaintance of
George Washington, a distant relative of the
Yorkshire Fairfax family who was then a youth of 16. Impressed with Washington's energy and talents, Lord Fairfax employed him to
survey his lands lying west of the
Blue Ridge. Though a frank and avowed
Loyalist, he was never insulted or molested by the
Whigs. His title and immense domain, consisting of 5,282,000 acres (21,380 km²), descended to his only surviving brother,
Robert Fairfax, 7th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, who died at
Leeds Castle,
England, in
1793. However, the domain was in possession of Lord Thomas Fairfax during the
American Revolutionary War and it was confiscated during the hostilities.
Fairfax died at his seat at
Greenway Court, Virginia near
White Post in
Clarke County,
Virginia at the age of 90.
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