Thomas Fairfax, third lord Fairfax

(1612-1671)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671 NRA: Fairfax, Thomas (1612-1671) 3rd Baron Fairfax, General DNB: Fairfax, Thomas, third Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1612-1671), parliamentarian army officer LBT ID: LdFairf3 VIAF ID: 74654593 LOC ID: n82136795	B/BAP: 1612-01-17 DIED: 1671-11-12
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Commander-in-chief of the Parliamentary armies during the English Civil War; he resigned in 1650 to be replaced by Oliver Cromwell.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Fairfax, third lord Fairfax: Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 20 December 1831 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 1 Douglas Jerrold to Lady Morgan, 20 December [1850] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 1 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward III Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXXV