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b. 1559 /60,C142/261/26. 1st s. of Sir Thomas Fairfax† of Denton and Dorothy, da. of George Gale†, ld. mayor of York. Vis. Yorks. ed. Foster, 96-7; Vis. Yorks. (Harl. Soc. xvi), 120. educ. Queen’s, Camb. 1577; L. Inn 1579. Al. Cant.; LI Admiss. m. settlement ?1 Mar. 1582, Ellen (d. 23 Aug. 1620), da. of Robert Aske of Aughton, Yorks. 9s. (6 d.v.p.), 3da. (1 d.v.p.). C142/229/128; Clay, Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 188; Bodl. Top. Yorks. c. 43, f. 90v; Vis. Yorks. ed. Foster, 96-7; Yorks. Peds. (W. Riding) ed. J. Foster (Fairfax of Gilling, Denton etc.). Kntd. 27 Sept. 1591; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 89. suc. fa. 1600; C142/261/26; C142/263/15/1. cr. Bar. Fairfax of Cameron [S] 18 Oct. 1627. CP; Registrum Magnum Sigillum Scotorum, 1620-33, p. 404. d. 1 May 1640. C142/600/124. sig. T[homas]/Tho[mas] Fairfax.
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Capt. of horse 1585–6; R. Strong and J.A. van Dorsten, Leicester’s Triumph (Sir Thomas Browne Inst. pubs. spec. ser. ii), 116; HMC Dudley and De L’Isle, iii. p. xxxiv. vol. Scotland 1588, France 1591; Fairfax Corresp. ed. G.W. Johnson, i. 13; Shaw, ii. 89. capt. of ft., Low Countries and Cadiz 1593–6. CSP For. 1593–4, pp. 153–4; Longleat, Devereux Pprs. vol. 1, ff. 89–90.

Capt. militia ft., Yorks. (W. Riding) 1587, col. by 1599–d.; Sotheby’s, Fairfax sale 13 Dec. 1993, lot 414; Add. 28082, f. 80; Add. 36293, f. 31v. commr. Middle March 1595; CBP, ii. 70–1. j.p. W. Riding c.1592/3, by 1598 – d., Cawood liberty by 1602–d.; Hatfield House, ms 278; C231/1, f. 45; C181/1, f. 7v. commr. musters, W. Riding 1598 – 99, dep. lt. by 1614-c.1633; APC, 1598–9, p. 491; Yorks. Arch. Soc. DD56/L3, bdle. ‘Militia etc.’; Bodl. Fairfax 30, ff. 159v, 168v. member, Council in the North 1599 – d., v.-pres. 1600; R. Reid, Council in the North, 496; Add. 30305, ff. 15–17. commr. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. 1599 – 1607, 1610–d., C66/1509, m. 35 (dorse); C181/1, f. 19; 181/2, ff. 22v, 117. sewers, Western Riding by 1603 – d.; member, High Commission, prov. of York 1604/5; HMC Hatfield, xv. 394. commr. survey R. Ouse, Yorks. 1610, C181/1, f. 106; 181/2, f. 127; 181/4, f. 82. Knaresborough Forest, Yorks. 1615–16, CSP Dom. 1611–18, p. 300; APC, 1615–16, pp. 532–5. subsidy, W. Riding 1608, 1621 – 22, 1624, SP14/31/1; C212/22/20–23. Forced Loan 1626–7. APC, 1626–7, pp. 243–4; CSP Dom. 1627–8, p. 194.

Gent. privy chamber (?extraordinary) 1603–25. HMC Hatfield, xv. 106; APC, 1619–21, p. 264; Bodl. Fairfax 30, ff. 127, 159v.

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FAIRFAX, Sir Thomas I (1559/60-1640), of Denton and Nun Appleton, Yorks.
Main residences: Denton; Nun Appleton, Yorks.
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S.H.
Volume
Commons 1604-1629
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FAIRFAX, Sir Thomas I (1559/60-1640)

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Oxford 1644
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