Career
1667 – 10 October 1729) was an English gardener. Fairchild established himself about 1690 as a nurseryman and florist at Hoxton, Shoreditch. Richard Bradley mentions the variety of his fruits.
Richard Pulteney classed him with Thomas Knowlton, Gordon, and Miller, as one of the leading gardeners of his time.
Fairchild died on 10 October 1729. He had taken up the freedom of the Clothworkers" Company in 1704, and in his will he is described as citizen and clothworker.
In accordance with his direction he was buried in a church yard belonging to the parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch. On his monument he was said to have died in his sixty-third year.