Show I I f AN AMERICAN CITIZEN WHO IS A PEER OF 01 BRITAIN i la Is no number member r of at tho the British t more moro In the tho public eye eo at nt present In lit tills this country than Lord V of ot Cameron Camerona a n Scottish nobleman 0 better known en on this tho iho Atlantic as us Plain Albert Fairfax ono ana of ot tho the of ot Virginia He Ito occupies a n position unique In the tho annals of the tho hous of lords lordi I In that he Is ls t an nn Amer American Klan ican born torn nobleman whose family has hu hid had h d an nn American citizenship ever the tho war vir of ot Independence Indo Until a com short time ago the tho present t Lurd Fairfax hid had no intention of as liS v suming hit his titular prerogatives prefer preferring ring to remain an everyday American t working orkinI out hl his hll destiny In tn tho the land of ot tho the free tree Hut circumstances In the form of at conditions conspired 1 to change hanKe hll hla hl views on 01 this most Im hn Important subject lu Being Heine sent from from New Newe e York YOlk to 10 London as 08 th the y cf ot a banking house hOIU h he not Illogically decided d that his prospects In England would be e bettered If It he ho took the step tep it 1 which has since been the Ilia subject of ot 1 1 much At present Lord Fairfax Is boing lav r entertained In l highest J social circles 8 where he Is I regarded n as s undoubtedly the Ibe most mot Interesting mem ii il ber of ot the peerage Popular attention i was directed to him dim when the In Invitations to tn ling coronation oj y were Vore Issued Ja fur for he was way the only Amer Arner American Amer 1 lean ican out of ot to be summoned by proclamation to attend the great cere cre ceremony mony In Westminster abbey abbl In th call cull Issued by the Duke nuke of ot Norfolk lie he ius specifically ordered to send his lite ad address address address dress to the tho earl marshal of ot the th United Kingdom In order that the royal sum eum might b be forwarded to him At AtNo F No tM that time his address was Wall Wahl street New York where ho occupied a II scat In Inthe Inthe Inthe the window of ot a banking years of ot age live ilvo gen generations gens of ot American parentage have left tho the young baron a a typical English Englishman man In appearance although he has In Inherited herlt d many of ot the qualities of his American forbears Ho lie Is III of if of medium height well built and athletic looking with no nth superfluous adipose tissue his hI quick springy spring walk testifying to 10 the elasticity of ot his muscles He JIe cultivates tho American habit ha bl t of shaven Im veil but his light yellow hair Is distinctively l and so 80 thin Is It II that at a 11 distance ono one would be willing to snake make an that the youthful peer Is bold bald Like rAke many real Englishmen Lord Fairfax is II extremely Keif sett conscious a characteristic characterise most mORt In evidence When hen henho ho he Is talking about himself II Igo Hn also has long been be 11 Accounted one of at the most mORt modest mildest of ot men mon his hid hi aversion version a to publicity being so pronounced that not nota n a 1 few tew who knew him refused to credit the news that he had decided to III take his sect neat among the lords Thal his father tather the late lale l Dr r John C Fairfax would never have hn 0 countenanced this step is II certain for tor It was wu Dr Ir proudest boast that he ho would auld have no handle to Ills his name The Tho present peer Is the twelfth Lord Fairfax the title having been Leen created In ht 1621 Even before that time limo the Fairfax family numbered some somo eminent mem mrm members hors her perhaps the molt moH notable of ot whom wes was Sir Guy Ruy Fairfax I who during durin Ii thin tM Wars Para of ot thu the Hoses Host became lord chief justice of ot England The Lord Fair Fairfax l fax grandson of oC this worthy worth jurist Jurl t was wal knighted for tor dis dill distinguished services before Hallen The second baron was one of ot the few lew nobles who went I nt over to side when the civil war broke out and hind had a com coin command mand Oland at the battle o Marston Moor where he defeated def the royal roal army Al AI Although AID though chiefly remembered us liS a famous tN hr e M f r v ci n An I I gI 4 ri rie I e i iJ I AhOt I J I V i jn Cre y Court gil I In Ino l fh Home ollie o I e FAC Lord Attire Aft re r Jin Court Dress ra roans s general his h Iii memory Is revered by Ly n 1 great reat body bod of ot English scholars since had hall It Il not been for tor his efforts the Hod lalan letan library at nt Oxford would have keen been burned by Ii h the Puritans who wished to destroy It on account of Its large number r of ot pal and antI Idolatrous trou writings Luckily Lord Fairfax heard h of oC their Intentions In time to throw a It strong force torce about the lie library Thomas the third baron was another noted tighter lighter for tor Cromwell being appointed general In chief of ot the parliamentary army arm In In which hlen year he won the battle battlo of ot Naseby Hut But It was wal around tho the sixth Lord Fairfax another Thomas that the llie ro to romance mance manse of ot the family clustered Tho The for tor fortunes fortunes tunes of ot him and find his hits descendants have peen been an nn Inspiration to writers of ot fiction notably Thackeray and store more recently J who Hahn Introduced the old nobleman In h her r Hearts Courageous From his moth mother er n II daughter of ot Lord Lon Culpepper Lord I Fairfax had Inherited large luo estates In the part of ot Virginia and to Journeyed In l n 1731 1136 taking with him his hits cousin Sir William Willi I 11 Fairfax an as manager of ot his hiM colonial domain It was wan through Sir William that the became related to the for tOI forIt forit It H was Sir Williams daughter Anna who became the bride of ot George Wash Washington ington loton older elder brother Lawrence She lived live with her husband hu band nt at his hie estate Mount Montt Vernon later lator Immortalized by Lr Incoming b the home homo of at the first prell president president dent After Afler remaining In Virginia for tor about n 1 year Lord Fairfax returned to Eng England England land There as the story runs he lie met with n a disappointment In love lave and re resolved resolved solved Holved to wind up hi his hili affairs and live hive permanently In th the colonies Whatever the reason he reappeared rl In Virginia In 1745 1116 and assumed control of ot hie vast east eastland land holdings holding which covered more than acres aeres embracing the section lIe llon between behlen the Potomac and time the hannock For 01 a time lie hI lived hived with Sir William WlIIlam at where hf hI most met tn t George Washington then but a young man Lord Fairfax took a u great fan tany famy y to the youthful American and an Inti Intimacy if 1 macy sprang up Ul between them that lasted throughout life lite Tho baron baNI en young joung Washington as aM a surveyor and It was at the future presidents president suggestion lIu that he built Greenway Court near Winchester e eWhen When the war of ot Independence began rt Lord ford Fairfax at al once ranged himself with the loyalists organized a troop of ot hor lor o and was V aH H given command coal and of ot militia muffle So popular woe was he ho with all aU claws that his property properly pro was not m I during the tha war sear 01 As AI the light fight lighting fightIng fa ing progressed and aid nd It ft b became cam more and more evident that victory Ictor wa to rest rent with the colonials colonial the old r baron buron became more and morn Inure broken In iii Inspirit spirit finally dying In 1781 In his nine aloe ninety t e 1 ty sei ae and ond year yar grief stricken nt sit the f surrender of at It H is reported ported r P that when wh n he heard heerd the news he called j ji i 1 a i servant and said Joe carry me to a abed ty 0 t bed for tor It is la high time for me to die a 1 Upon 1011 tho the death of ot th the baron th the cr estate and title paNed to his hits brother t tHobert Hobert from whom wham It t was confiscated I of by congress owing to th the part by E Thomas during the war The family has hai never nIer recovered from the blow then administered adl The present Lord Fairfax I certainly cannot annot be bl called of aC fluent lluent although his Isle fortunes may mil be t I Improved In III the his new role H lie Is very verr t y popular In and has recently Urt rt taken a leading part In many social V s functions notably the great charity ball w j jIn lip dp In London a II few to weeks ago R 1 HI What will also play pley pIa no small part n lio In making snaking Lord Fairfax I a 1 In p 1 the land of his hili ancestors Is that he It l lla CT 0 U la a sport loving man and aM as such luch will J t thi shine in circles from which he might tt w I otherwise is u H debarred Always fond of ot nM athletic his hiM chief pastime i 0 Is I golf golt which has haM even a greater ogue vogue lisle nj In III England J than then on this ride elite nf of o the iJ j 1 1 water L U HEITON EITON I ItI 9 tel |