FAIRFAX, Thomas II (c.1575-1636), of Gilling Castle and Walton, Yorks.

Family and Education

b. c. 1575,CP has 1574; Al. Cant. has bap. 5 Feb. 1577, but adm. Caius 8 Dec. 1590, aged 15; MI. (1636) has aged 62. o.s. of Sir William Fairfax of Gilling Castle and Walton, by his and w. educ. sch. at Gilling; Caius, Camb. 1590. m. (1) 1594, Catherine (d.1626), da. of Sir Henry Constable of Burton Constable, 6s. 5da.; (2) 1627, Mary, da. of Sir Robert Ford of Butley, Suff., wid. of Sir William Bamburgh, Bt., of Howsham. suc. fa. 1597. Kntd. Apr. 1603; cr. Visct. Fairfax [I] 10 Jan. 1629.Foster, Yorks, Peds. i.

Offices Held

Commr. musters, Yorks. (W. Riding) 1600; j.p. Yorks. (N. Riding) by 1603; member, council in the north from July 1603, v.-president 1608, 1616; sheriff, Yorks. 1627–8.HMC Hatfield, xiv. 148; xv. 394; Biog. Studies (now Recusant History) iii. 89–90; Reid, Council of the North, 497.

Parlimentarian

FAIRFAX, Sir Thomas II (1576-1636), of Walton and Gilling Castle, nr. Malton, Yorks.

Main residences: Gilling Castle; Walton, Yorks.

Author

N.M.S.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

FAIRFAX, Thomas II (c.1575-1636)

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Oxford 1644

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