Thomas Fairfax 1612-1671
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Thomas FAIRFAX, 3rd Baron Fairfax 1612-71
Biographical Note
Born at Denton, Yorkshire, 1st son of Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1584-1648). Matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge in 1626; entered Gray's Inn in 1628. A parliamentary general in the Civil War, he gained...for his victory at Naseby in ...
An active reader and writer, and collector of coins and engravings as well as books.
Books
Noted for having protected the Bodleian Library from looting when the Oxford was captured; bequeathed 129 medieval manuscripts to the Bodleian, and the manuscripts collections which were left to him by Roger Dodsworth.
Sources
- British Armorial Bindings.
- Gentles, Ian J. "Fairfax, Thomas, third Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1612–1671), parliamentarian army officer." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Philip, I. The Bodleian Library in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Oxford, 1983, 57.