Thomas Fairfax 1612-1671
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Thomas FAIRFAX, 3rd Baron Fairfax 1612-71
Biographical Note
Parliamentary general. 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 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.