Guy Fairfax
Sir Guy Fairfax (died 1495), was an English judge.
Fairfax was of a
Richard, duke of York, who had been attainted in the previous parliament
.
One of his colleagues was Sir William Plumpton, whose counsel he afterwards was in 1469. He first appears in the year-books in
In about 1474, Fairfax rebuilt Steeton Hall, south-west of York.[4]
He died in 1495. By his wife, Margaret, a daughter of Sir William Ryther, he had six children, four sons (the eldest, William, a Judge of the Common Pleas under Henry VIII) and two daughters.
References
- ^ There are two places in Yorkshire called Walton – Walton, Leeds and Walton, Wakefield. The latter of those places was mentioned in the Domesday Book; and is the site of Walton Hall, a stately home built on the site of a former moated mediaeval hall. That is suggestive but not decisive evidence of where Thomas Fairfax lived.
- ^ Rot. Parl. iv. 164
- ^ (Grants of Edward V, 6)
- ^ "Steeton Hall". Heritage Gateway. Historic England. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Fairfax, Guy". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.