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	Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron (January 17, 1612 – November 12, 1671), general and commander-in-chief during the English Civil War, the eldest son of Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, was born at Denton, near Otley, Yorkshire.
		Sir Thomas Fairfax was selected as the new lord general with Cromwell as his lieutenant-general and cavalry commander, and after a short preliminary campaign the "New Model" justified its existence, and "the rebels' new brutish general", as the king called him, his capacity as commander-in-chief in the decisive victory of Naseby (14 June 1645).
		Fairfax was in agreement with Cromwell and the army leaders in demanding the punishment of Charles, and he was still the effective head of the army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Fairfax,_3rd_Baron_Fairfax_of_Cameron (1819 words)

	FAIRFAX OF CAMERON - LoveToKnow Article on FAIRFAX OF CAMERON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sir Thomas Fairfax was selected as the new lord general with Cromwell as his lieutenant-general and cavalry commander, and after a short preliminary campaign the New Model justified its existence, and the rebels new brutish general, as the king called him, his capacity as commander-in-chief in the decisive victory of Naseby (q.v.).
		Lord Fairfax died at Nunappleton on the 12th, of November 1671, and was buried at Bilborough, near York.
		Thomas found his cousin William Fairfax settled in Virginia, and made him his agent, and Bryan (1737-1802), the son of William Fairfax, eventually inherited the title, becoming 8th baron in 1793.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FA/FAIRFAX_OF_CAMERON.htm (1723 words)

	Thomas Fairfax, Third Baron Fairfax (1612-1671)
		Fairfax was sent across the Pennines to deal with the new threat in the Welsh Marches, and after a slow journey, reached Cheshire, where the new Royalist army, under Lord Byron, was besieging Nantwich, the only Parliamentary stronghold in the county.
		Fairfax was one of the few to remain on the field (although his father did run from the field).
		Fairfax and the New Model then moved on to deal with the remaining Royalist strongholds in the south, including Sherborne castle, taken on 14 August, Bristol, taken on 10 September despite the presence of Prince Rupert in the garrison, and Berkeley Castle, taken on 26 September.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/people_fairfax.html (1525 words)

	Edward Fairfax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		- 1635) was a translator, the natural son of Sir Thomas Fairfax and thus a half-brother of Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron.
		Fairfax lived at Fuystone, near Knaresborough, England in peace and prosperity.
		Fairfax also wrote a treatise on Demonology, in which he was a devout believer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_Fairfax (154 words)

	Sir Thomas Fairfax 1612-71
		Thomas Fairfax was born at Denton Hall, near Otley, Yorkshire, on 17 January 1612, the eldest son of Ferdinando, 2nd Lord Fairfax.
		The Marquis of Newcastle attacked the Fairfaxes at Bradford and inflicted a major defeat at the battle of Adwalton Moor in June 1643, which left the Royalists in control of all of Yorkshire except the port of Hull.
		Fairfax's clemency towards the civilian population and the discipline of the New Model Army stood in marked contrast to the plundering and lawlessness of Royalist commanders such as Goring and Sir Richard Grenville.
	www.british-civil-wars.co.uk /biog/fairfax.htm (1854 words)

	Brief Biography of Thomas Fairfax
		Thomas, Lord Fairfax, the eldest son of Ferdinando, Lord Fairfax, was born at Denton, in 1601.
		A medal of Sir Thomas Fairfax bears on the obverse his bust regarding the left, with the eneireling legend "Gener: Tho: Fairfax: Miles: Milit: Parli: Dux." The battle of Naseby, in 1646, proved him in every way worthy of the trust reposed in him.
		Fairfax was in truth too good and honest a man for the party to which he waj attached.
	www.isle-of-man.com /manxnotebook/people/lords/fairfax.htm (1007 words)

	Battle of Marston Moor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Thomas Fairfax had managed to make his way alone through Goring's men to reach Cromwell and relate the state of affairs on the Allied right flank.
		Sir Thomas Fairfax's brother Charles was mortally wounded.
		Most of the Fairfaxes' renascent army, raised in Hull, the West Riding of Yorkshire and Lancashire, was dispersed in garrisons in recently recaptured towns and castles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Marston_Moor (1921 words)

	The Fairfax Battalia - Sir Thomas Fairfax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Fairfax Battalia takes its name from Sir Thomas Fairfax who was appointed the first captain general of the New Model Army in 1645 and was colonel of his own regiment of Foot and Horse.
		Fairfax was born on 17th January 1612 at Denton in Yorkshire and died on 12th November 1671.Fairfax was educated at the University of Cambridge and was a cultured person who was interested in Roman antiquities and cultivating roses.
		Fairfax immediately set about organising its formation and training as England’s first professional army, uniting the earlier regional armies which had difficulties operating outside their own areas and with rivalries between the different command structures.
	www.fairfax.org.uk /MAIN/tomfairfax.htm (548 words)

	BBC - History - Sir Thomas Fairfax (1612 - 1671)
		Thomas Fairfax, son of Ferdinando Lord Fairfax, was born in Denton in north Yorkshire.
		Sir Thomas Fairfax, neither an MP nor a peer, was a proven commander, and was the obvious choice for Captain General - its leader.
		Thomas Fairfax was held in high regard as a military commander, not only by his peers but also by those under his command, strict disciplinarian though he was.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/fairfax_thomas.shtml (487 words)

	Biography - F - British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fairfax commanded a regiment in the King’s army during the Bishops' Wars then sided with Parliament on the outbreak of civil war in 1642.
		Fairfax was driven from York to Selby, then to Leeds in 1643 where he was totally defeated at Adwalton Moor.
		Fairfax recaptured Selby in April 1644 and joined the Earl of Manchester and the Army of the Covenant at the siege of York.
	www.british-civil-wars.co.uk /biog/index_f.htm (2513 words)

	The ECW Pages - Sir Thomas Fairfax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fairfax was appointed commander in chief of the New Model Army in 1645, and set about organising its formation and training.
		Fairfax also fought in the second civil war for Parliament, but refused to condemn Charles I to death.
		Fairfax resigned his commission in 1650 in reaction to the proposed invasion of Scotland.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~crossby/ECW/people/fairfax2.html (188 words)

	Dianne Elizabeth's Family History
		Sir Robert spent the first year or so of his life at Wigmore, where his father was steward to the Earl of Shrewsbury, and the family probably moved to Brampton Bryan at the death of Robert's grandfather, John Harley, the younger, in 1582.
		Sir Thomas was the Commander-in-Chief of the parliamentarian army from 1645-1650.
		Sir Robert was one of the MPs eager to hold public fasts, and at the start of the 1628 Parliament he declared: I joy to see the sense of this House to join to humble ourselves before God.
	www.dianneelizabeth.com /Surname/Harley/jacobsladder.html (5770 words)

	Nicholas FAIRFAX (Sir)
		Fairfax was one of the Yorkshire gentlemen who received a letter from King Henry VIII commanding him to aid in repressing "certain traitors" and "suffer by dint and sword or else so yield that the ringleaders be committed to prison" to await trial.
		Fairfax, notwithstanding their promise to the King, moved that the parishes of Dent and Sedbar might rise and raise both Lancashire and Cheshire.
		Sir Nicholas is shown in armour, his head resting on a helmet and at his feet a lion couchant.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/NicholasFairfax.htm (1203 words)

	Yorkshire History
		They arrived individually (Sir Thomas arrived by boat having crossed the Humber from Barton upon Humber in Lincolnshire) by the beginning of July, whereupon the town elders invited Lord Ferdinando Fairfax to accept the post of Military Governor, which had been left vacant by the removal of Sir John Hotham.
		Sir Thomas’ base had been the town of Beverley, 8 miles north of Hull where he had been free quartering his force of 1,800 foot and 20 troops of horse.
		Beverley, with some justification, expected that Sir Thomas would make a stand in order to defend their town but rather than even attempt such an action the decision was made to withdraw back to the total safety of Hull.
	yorkshirehistory.com /sieges1_secondsiege.htm (2339 words)

	Whalley Abbey and Lathom House
		But Fairfax, of course, aware that she only wanted time, replied that he could not give her a week for reflection; he invited her instead to come to her lord's house of New Park, to which he would take her in his own coach, and where the colonels and himself would discuss matters with her.
		Sir Thomas Fairfax sent in reply that she must evacuate Lathom House by ten the next morning.
		The same day Fairfax sent a letter that he had received from Lord Derby, who was then at Chester, desiring an honourable and safe passage for his wife and children if she so pleased, being unwilling to expose them to the hazards of a siege.
	www.mspong.org /picturesque/whalley_abbey.html (2683 words)

	A history of Fraser's
		The Scots and Fairfax's army took up siege positions around York and Sir Thomas Fairfax was despatched to the Earl of Manchester to request his Army of the Associated Counties, which had just taken the city of Lincoln, to cooperate in this great siege.
		Sir Adam Hepburn, the Commissary General of the Scottish Army, also asserted that Cromwell and his troopers were so humbled that he would have fled if David Leslie had not supported him.
		However Sir James Fraser of Brea, “the Marquis of Argylle's creature” obtained this command and led the Clan in the Covenanters Army to fight against Montrose at Auldearn on 4th May 1645.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/alistair_birnie/history.htm (2959 words)

	Leodis-Civil War
		Thomas Fairfax sends a trumpeter to Sir William Saville requiring him, in writing, to give up the town to the Parliamentarians.
		Sir William, having one thousand-five hundred foot soldiers, five hundred horse and two demi-culverins*, refused both the first and second requests to surrender.
		After considerable firing, without any important result, Sir Thomas Fairfax (P) assaulted the outworks of the town and, in a hard fight of some two hours duration, drove the royalists from their works and took possession of them.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /keith.feeney/civilwar.html (736 words)

	Pepys' Diary: Fairfax, Lord Thomas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After the Restoration, Fairfax’s son-in-law returned the favor in kind, for he “probably saved him [Fairfax] from being condemned as a regicide.” Instead of the gallows or prison, Fairfax spent a quiet retirement in Yorkshire until his death in 1671.
		As early as November, 1659, he had been in negotiations with Fairfax — the one Parliamentary general left of high character and entirely unstained reputation — and on January 1 Fairfax and his friends had occupied York in arms.
		A sister of Thomas Fairfax married Thomas Widdrington, who became a member of the council of state in 1651, speaker of the Commons in September 1656 and chief baron of the Exchequer, where Pepys worked, in June 1658.
	www.pepysdiary.com /p/107.php (1096 words)

	1644: Battle of Nantwich
		In mid-January 1644, Sir Thomas Fairfax and Sir William Brereton led a force of around 3,000 foot, 1,800 horse and 500 dragoons to the relief of Nantwich.
		Byron was forced to make a six-mile detour to unify his army but Fairfax lost the opportunity for a pre-emptive strike by waiting for his rearguard to come up.
		Realising that the Royalist centre was overstretched and the cohesion of the line was broken by fields and hedgerows, Fairfax turned his entire column to face the Royalists, the front and rear of the column becoming its wings.
	www.british-civil-wars.co.uk /military/1644-nantwich.htm (359 words)

	The Fairfax Family
		The second Sir Thomas in 1513 served under Henry VIII on his expedition to Flanders, and when Tournai surrendered to the King, Sir Thomas was one of those who received the honour of knighthood.
		Sir Nicholas Fairfax was one of the Yorkshire gentlemen who received a letter from King Henry VIII commanding him to aid in repressing “certain traitors” and “suffer by dint and sword or else so yield that the ringleaders be committed to prison” to await trial.
		Sir William died on 1st November 1597; his personal estate was valued at £1072 plus the plate and household goods at Gilling Castle; the plate was valued at £393–7s–7d.
	www.nyrond.org /university/heraldry/www.demon.co.uk/apl385/gilling/chapter9.htm (3317 words)

	Thomas Fairfax
		Thomas Fairfax, the son of Ferdinando Fairfax, was born in Denton, Yorkshire, in 1612.
		Fairfax was knighted by Charles I in 1641.
		Fairfax was elected to the House of Commons (1654-1658) but did not attend proceedings.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /STUfairfax.htm (565 words)

	Yorkshire History
		Sir John Hotham: was incarcerated within the walls of the Tower of London upon his arrival and disembarkation of the Hercules on the 15
		Sir Thomas Fairfax was not a signatory on the death warrant, Oliver Cromwell was.
		Sir Thomas Fairax: Because of his undoubted military capabilities he was in 1645, called upon to form and train The New Model Army and became its first Commander in Chief.
	yorkshirehistory.com /sieges1_conclusion.htm (816 words)

	CHRONOLOGY OF THE FIRST CIVIL WAR 1643 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sir Robert Monro's Scots in the north are left to make their own peace; or face the undivided attentions of the Confederation forces.
		Sir William Widdrington, and Sir John Henderson (governor of Newark) put together a scratch force to march to the relief of the castle.
		November 24 (Friday) Sir Thomas Ogle, one of the minority independent divines threatened by the policy of Presbyterian reform, encourages the Royalists of the Peace-party to seek a settlement.
	www.wargames.co.uk /RandomS/Library/1643.htm (12690 words)

	Fairfax of Cameron, Thomas Fairfax, 3d Baron
		Fairfax of Cameron, Thomas Fairfax, 3d Baron, 1612–71, English general.
		He was the son of Ferdinando Fairfax, 2d Baron Fairfax of Cameron (1584–1648), whose title he inherited and under whom he fought in the early stages of the English civil war.
		Fairfax was conservative by nature, and when the quarrel developed between the army and Parliament he exercised little influence over army policies.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0818145.html (277 words)

	Norham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thomas de Wodom was the Prior's tenant, and his knight's fee tenure of Woodham would have obliged him to give military assistance to the Bishop in times of need.
		Thomas was followed by a second Alexander who was followed by a younger brother called John.
		At the Raid of Redeswire in 1575, a trumpery border quarrel that was the survival of an old feud between the Scots and the English, the battle cry of the English raiders was 'A Schaftan and a Fenwick'.
	www.gmilne.demon.co.uk /norham.htm (2170 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sir William Wentworth's advice to his son, 1604, includes the following passages regarding honor, tenants, and wives: p.12: "If yow desyre AUTHORITIE or degree of HONOR, you must make meanes for itt, otherwaies itt will not be laide upon yow ther be so manie that make suite for it.
		Sir, I heare that there is a commission on foote within the honore of Pontfract for assessinge the coppiholders' fines there, wherin Sir Henry Sauile is a comissioner.
		Sir, I thinke you for your many littles, which put together make much, and the least of them much more then I, though I roue abroade, can intertane you with from hence.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/hgarrett/researchfiles/pub/wentwort.rhs (1378 words)

	Geroge Washington - The Young Surveyor - Biography - George Washington
		Sir Thomas was a courtly old gentleman, and he had seen much of the world.
		Sir Thomas was so highly pleased with the report which the young men brought back that he made up his mind to move across the Blue Ridge and spend the rest of his life on his own lands.
		Through the influence of Sir Thomas Fairfax he was appointed public surveyor - and nothing would do but that he must spend the most of his time at Greenway Court and keep on with the work that he had begun.
	www.apples4theteacher.com /holidays/presidents-day/george-washington/biography/the-young-surveyor.html (1538 words)

	To Kill A King review at theOneliner.com
		Fairfax and the Parliament, here represented by Baron Denzil Holles (James Bolam) would be happy with a period of exile, a written censure and redrafting of the laws relating King and parliament.
		Fairfax recently finds that his wife is expecting a child, and warns Holles in advance of the army's arresting squad on the understanding that this would ensure his child would have at least one friend of influence in event of things going pear-shaped.
		Fairfax interprets Cromwell's almost fanatical drive to purge the country of royalty as a madness, and refuses to sign the death warrant.
	www.theoneliner.com /film125.html (1600 words)

	The ECW Pages - The Battle of Marston Moor
		Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Fairfax was left with a small cavalry force to cover their manouever.
		When Fairfax saw that the royalist cavalry were being reinforced in strength, he sent for Leven asking that the army be returned - fearing that it might be attacked whilst in order of march.
		Fairfax suffered some casualties from musket fire, and his cavalry were disordered by difficult terrain.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~crossby/ECW/battles/marston.html (708 words)

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