Show AMERICAN BORN BRITISH BRITISH VEER PEER Lord Lo Fairfax a Descendant of Cromwell's Cromwell's Cromwell's Crom Crom- wells well's Great General Lord Fairfax who Is likely to reside h her fter In England is regarded there thereIn In some ways ays ay aft as af the Interest Interest- t most InterestIng I Ing member of the I Scottish peerage The London r Sketch says that this is due due due- two points He Ile is the wt- wt only A American mer i can born British baron i having no settled home in the country country country coun coun- try of ot his ancestors ancestors ancestors ances ances- tors and yet h hhas he has In no sense merged his British J nationality In in iii that j of the stars stars' and and stripes The bearer of a Lord Fairfax famous name fa his ancestor the great Fairfax was one of the few few nobles who sided with Cromwell Crom Crom- well he held chief command at Marston Marston Mars Mars- ton Moor and his son In chief of the parliamentary parliament ry forces and as such gained the great victory at Naseby When the king came cam to toe IllS his own gain Again the Fairfax of that day found It more prudent to emigrate to America He settled In Virginia where he had great estates and In due course his hrs descendants became Intimate intimate inti Inti- mate with President nt Washl Washington The rhe present Lord Fairfax twelfth baron is a good looking man of oC 33 He received a sp special Invitation to the coronation and during his stay in London was much C feted ted and entertained enter ente tamed both b by his brother pe peers rs and by those members of the court world world- who were were- acquainted ted with his curious arid and roman romantic ic hiS history 0 1 |