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Revision as of 09:00, 11 May 2020

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