James Elliot Fair

(1797-1874)

LBT ID: JaFair1874	B/BAP: 1797 DIED: 1874
SOURCES: James C. Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Scott; George Tancred, The Annals of a Border Club (the Jedforest) (1899) 443
Originally Shortreed, the third son of Robert Shortreed; he assumed the name of Fair upon succeeding to the estate of Langlee; he was elected to the Jedforest Club in 1849.
REFERENCES TO James Elliot Fair: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1792-96 Found 1: ¶ n1