Bryan Fairfax (disambiguation)

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Bryan Fairfax (1925–2014) was an Australian conductor.

Lancelot Beresford Bryan Fairfax was an Australian conductor based in the United Kingdom, who was known for his championing of little known or neglected works.

Bryan or Brian Fairfax is also the name of:

Bryan Fairfax, 8th Lord Fairfax of Cameron American planter

Rev. Bryan Fairfax, 8th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1736—1802) was a Scottish clergyman and peer. He was a lifelong friend of George Washington and became the first American-born holder of a British peerage.

Brian Fairfax English politician (1633–1711)

Brian Fairfax (1633–1711) was an English politician.

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Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy baronets

The Fairfax, later Ramsay-Fairfax, later Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy Baronetcy, of The Holmes in the County of Roxburgh, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 14 March 1836 for Henry Fairfax, in honour of his father, Vice-Admiral Sir William George Fairfax. The second Baronet assumed the additional surname of Ramsay in 1876, which was the maiden name of his maternal grandmother. The third Baronet assumed by Royal Licence the additional surname of Lucy in 1892 after his marriage to Ada Christina Lucy, daughter and heiress of Henry Spencer Lucy. In 1921 he added by Royal licence the additional surname of Cameron, making this quadruple-barrelled name a notable example of the British tradition of concatenated surnames.

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Lord Fairfax of Cameron title in the Peerage of Scotland

Lord Fairfax of Cameron is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. Despite holding a Scottish peerage, the Lords Fairfax of Cameron are members of an ancient Yorkshire family, of which the Fairfax Baronets of The Holmes are members of another branch. From 1515 to about 1700 the family resided at Denton Hall.

Charlecote Park country house near Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England

Charlecote Park is a grand 16th-century country house, surrounded by its own deer park, on the banks of the River Avon near Wellesbourne, about 4 miles (6 km) east of Stratford-upon-Avon and 5.5 miles (9 km) south of Warwick, Warwickshire, England. It has been administered by the National Trust since 1946 and is open to the public. It is a Grade I listed building.

Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron American planter

Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron was a Scottish peer. He was the son of Thomas Fairfax, 5th Lord Fairfax of Cameron and of Catherine, daughter of Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper.

Albert Kirby Fairfax, 12th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, was an American-born Scottish Representative Peer and politician in the British House of Lords.

The Robinson family are a fictional family from the Australian television soap opera Neighbours. The family were created by Reg Watson and introduced in the first episode of the serial, broadcast on 18 March 1985. The family initially consisted of Jim Robinson, his mother-in-law Helen Daniels, and his four children Paul Robinson, Julie Martin, Scott Robinson, and Lucy Robinson. The Robinsons have one of the largest and most complex family trees in the show's history.

Charles Snowdon Fairfax, 10th Lord Fairfax of Cameron was an American Democratic politician of California. He was of Scottish noble descent, and held a Scottish peerage. Fairfax was lured west as part of the gold rush. The town of Fairfax, California, is named for him.

Ferdinando Fairfax was a Virginia landowner and member of the prominent Fairfax family.

Greenway Court, Virginia human settlement in United States of America

Greenway Court is a historic country estate near White Post in rural Clarke County, Virginia. The property is the site of the seat of the vast 18th-century land empire of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1693-1781), the only ennobled British colonial proprietor to live in one of the North American colonies. The surviving remnants of his complex — a later replacement brick house and Fairfax's stone land office — were designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960.

Thomas Brian McKelvie Fairfax, 13th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, was a Scottish nobleman, peer, and Conservative politician.

There have been five baronetcies created for persons with the surname Ramsay, four in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. One creation is extant as of 2010.

Robert Fairfax, 7th Lord Fairfax of Cameron British noble

Robert Fairfax, 7th Lord Fairfax of Cameron MP (1707–1793), was a Scottish peer and politician. He died at Leeds Castle, England, which he inherited from his mother Catherine, daughter of Thomas Culpeper, 2nd Baron Culpeper of Thoresway.

Thomas Fairfax, 9th Lord Fairfax of Cameron American planter

Thomas Fairfax, 9th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1762–1846), was an American born Scottish peer, who along with his father, on December 11, 1799, was among the last guests at Mount Vernon before Washington died.

Henry Fairfax, 4th Lord Fairfax of Cameron was a Scottish nobleman, peer, and politician. He was the grandson of Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron. His father was the Hon. Henry Fairfax, of York, and his mother was Lady Mary Cholmondeley.(1593-1649).

Towlston Grange is an 18th-century plantation in Great Falls in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The estate served as a residence for several prominent members of the Fairfax family. Towlston Grange is located at 1213 Towlston Road in Great Falls. There is a photograph of Bryan Fairfax's Towlston Grange in its unrestored state, taken by "The Rambler" of the Washington, D.C. Evening Star newspaper in 1918, that shows a ​1 12-story clapboarded house built in the English tradition.[4]

Stanford-on-Teme village in United Kingdom

Stanford-on-Teme is a village and, with the village of Orleton just under a mile away, is also a civil parish in the Malvern Hills District in the county of Worcestershire, England.

Henry Fairfax may refer to:

Nun Appleton Priory grade II listed priory in the United kingdom

Nun Appleton Priory was a priory near Appleton Roebuck, North Yorkshire, England. It was founded as a nunnery c. 1150, by Eustace de Merch and his wife. It was dissolved by 1539, when the nuns were receiving pensions.

William Fairfax (1691–1757) was the builder of the Belvoir estate and plantation.