an English antiquary and genealogist. Fairfax wrote a work in manuscript entitled Analecta Fairfaxiana. It contains pedigrees, carefully written and blazoned on vellum, of all the branches of the Fairfax family, and of many of the families connected with it, interspersed with many genealogical and literary notes, and about fifty anagrams, epigrams, and elegies in Latin. It went to Leeds Castle, Kent and then passed into the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps. Along with several related volumes, tt was acquired by Leeds University Library in 1993.
