Thomas Lord Fairfax
BIRTH
Oct 22, 1693
Kent, England
DEATH
December 9, 1781
White Post, Virginia
FAMILY
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Fairfax, Thomas Lord
(1693-1781)
Thomas Fairfax, sixth Lord Fairfax of Cameron, was proprietor of Virginia’s Northern Neck and an important patron of the young George Washington. Remaining in Virginia during the Revolution, the elderly British nobleman lived quietly until his death in 1781.
GRAVE:
MARKER
Tomb of Lord Fairfax
140 W Boscawen St, Winchester, VA 22601
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Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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George Washington's Mount Vernon | 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy, Mt Vernon, VA 22121 | MUSEUM | ||
Colonial Williamsburg | 101 Visitor Center Dr, Williamsburg, VA 23185 | MUSEUM | ||
Raleigh Tavern | E Duke of Gloucester St, Williamsburg, VA 23185 | MUSEUM | ||
Lord Fairfax House | 607 Cameron St, Alexandria, VA 22314 | MARKER | ||
Greenway Court Marker | 12582 Lord Fairfax Hwy, Boyce, VA 22620 | MARKER | ||
Tomb of Lord Fairfax | 140 W Boscawen St, Winchester, VA 22601 | MARKER | ||
White Post Marker | 217 Berrys Ferry Rd, White Post, VA 22663 | MARKER | ||
Belvoir Marker | 202 Belvoir Rd, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060 | MARKER |
DIED:
White Post, Virginia
Dec 9, 1781
Thomas Lord Fairfax was born on Oct 22, 1693 in Kent, England. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Thomas Lord Fairfax with work or public activity as a planter. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Thomas Lord Fairfax died on Dec 9, 1781 in White Post, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.