Nicholas Fairfax, 14th Lord Fairfax of Cameron

Nicholas John Albert Fairfax, 14th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (born 4 January 1956) is the current (as of 2015) holder of the title of Lord Fairfax of Cameron, succeeding Thomas Fairfax, 13th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1923–64).

Fairfax, educated at Eton and Downing College, Cambridge (LLB in International Law), is a barrister and was called to the Bar following becoming a member of Gray's Inn (1977).

Lord Fairfax's directorships of several companies are as follows: Thomas Miller P and I, and Thomas Miller Defence, 1987–90; Sedgwick Marine & Cargo Ltd, 1995–96; British-Georgian Soc. Ltd, 2006; Sovcomflot (UK) Ltd, since 2005; Sovcomflot, 2007. He is Patron of AMUR Tiger and Leopard Charity, 2006. He is a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of the Shipwrights' Company.

He was a member of the House of Lords first from 1977 to 1999. In November 2015, he was elected to return to the House at a Conservative hereditary peers' by-election, following the death of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu.[1]

In 1982, he married Annabel, elder daughter of late Nicholas and of Sarah Gilham Morriss, of Newmarket, by whom he has three sons. His heir apparent to the title is his eldest son, Hon Edward Nicholas Thomas Fairfax, born 20 September 1984.

Ancestry

Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by
Thomas Brian McKelvie Fairfax		 Lord Fairfax of Cameron
1964–present 		Incumbent

References

  1. ↑ Conservative hereditary peers' by-election, November 2015

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