Background
Fairfax was born at Denton, Yorkshire on 5 March 1597, and was the seventh and third surviving son of Sir Thomas (afterwards first Lord) Fairfax.
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Charles Fairfax
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Trinity College.
Career
His two surviving brothers (four others were killed fighting in 1631) were Ferdinando and Henry. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge on 5 October 1611, and was called to the bar at Lincoln"s Inn on 9 March 1618. The counsellor and annalist of his family, the rest of his life was spent mainly on his family tree, at Menston, Yorkshire.
At Menston he was within a few miles of his paternal home at Denton.
A few days before the battle of Marston Moor (2 July 1644) Cromwell and other parliamentary leaders held a conference at Fairfax"s house at Menston around a table now at Farnley Hall, Yorkshire. During Monck"s march into Yorkshire he was appointed governor of the town of Kingston-upon-Hull.
This office he held only about a year and then retired to Menston with a pension, granted him by Charles II out of the customs at Hull. He died in Menston in December 1673.
Fairfax wrote a work in manuscript entitled Analecta Fairfaxiana.
lieutenant 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. lieutenant 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.
By his will, dated 1672, Fairfax bequeathed manuscripts to Lincoln"s Inn.
