Fairfax, Brian, 1676-1749

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Fairfax, Brian, 1676-1749

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        1676-1749

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        FAIRFAX, BRIAN, eldest son of Brian Fairfax LLD, Equerry to Charles II and William III, and Charlotte, dau. of Sir Edmund Cary, Kt.; b. 11 Apr 1676; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1690; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1693, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1693, scholar 20 Apr 1694, matr. 1695; BA 1696/7; MA 1700; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Oct 1699, Major Fellow 5 Apr 1701- c. 1707; presumably Brian Fairfax who was Deputy Treasurer of Chamber, Royal Household May 1720 - c. Aug 1721; Commissioner of Taxes 22 Dec 1714 – Aug 1723, Commissioner of Customs from 1723; collected a valuable library and a gallery of pictures at his house in Panton Square, Haymarket; d. unm. 9 Jan 1748/9. DNB.

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        GB-2014-WSA-06934

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        GB 2014

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        International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition

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        Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020

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            Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.

            The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.

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