The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-04-28
Selut Misrrllunl.
A Maryland Peer.

Lord Fairfax is the noble title which
rightfully belongs to modest, unas-
suming country gentleman now resid-
ing in Southern Maryland. Among
his friends and neighbors he is known
as DR.. John Contee Fairfax. having in
former years been a practicing physi-
clan. That he comes ofnoble ancestry
there is not the shadow of doubt, for
the ancestral records are as clean and
we'll authenticated as the authorities
on English peerage can make them.
Although recognized by the House of
Lords and all of the other authorities
on the subject as a nobleman, Lord
Fairfax glories in the fact that he is an
American citizen.
This American peer is designated in
the peerage records as the Right Hon
orable John Contee Fairfax, eleventh
Baron Fairfax of Cameron, and the
male representative of the famous
Parliamentary generals, the second and
third Lords Fairfax
All OF the authorities of England
and America on the peerage record
him as the eleventh Baron Fairfax, and
his elder son, Albert Kirby Fairfax,
who resides in Greater New York,
representing an English banking estab-
lishmcnt, is in possession OF nearly all
of the ancestral evidences of his fathers
title to the peerage.
The home of Lord Fairfax is on
plantation in Prince Georges county,
called Northampton. 1t is situated
about twelve miles from the city of
Washington, and about six miles from
the venerable old Maryland town,
Bladensburg. With a desire to see
this American peer at home, took the
train to smart little village on the
Washington branch of the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad, called Landovcr. At the
station | inquired of fthc superintendent
the nearest road to Lord Fairfax 5
plantation.
"Thcre comes Lord Fairfax now,'
replied the superintendent, pointing
down a typical Southern Maryland
road, composed largely Of red clay and
sand. Instead of royal chariot, gay
ly caparisoned, with four horses and
outriders and such an equipment rs
royalty is supposed to ride in, behold
a low, no-top buggy, the wheels covered
with red clay and mud, a spcck!ed
white horse, and the driver. medium
sized old gentleman, in Il rusty blue
coat, black derby hat ofantiquc design,
turn-down collar, black silk scarf
His hair was white, his eyes were keen
and bright, and his ruddy complexion
was in striking contrast with the little
tuft of white beard on his chin
This was Lord Fairfax.
Upon being informed of the object
of my mission, he invited me to take a
seat in his buggy, and together we
drove to Northampton. 1t was cold,
bleak day, and His Lordship suggested
that it would be well to tuck the lap
robe snugly around us, as we were
liable to encounter 4 remnant of the
recent blizzard which still fingered i'll
the lowlands which we would have to
pass before reaching orthampton.
Lord Fairfax said he was s;Xty-ci 1T
years old and was born September l3,
1880, in Virginia. When but IA lad the
family left Virginia and moved to the
Heights of Georgetown, where they re-
sided for Il number of years. Lord
Fairfax attended the public schools
and aftcrward received special instruc-
ton preparatory to entering Princeton.
After graduating from Princeton, he
took the medical course at the Cniver-
sity of Pennsylvania. Upon receiving
his diploma he returned to Washington
and joined his mother, who was then
living in the vicinity Of the old Sol
diers' Home, near the now thriving
little village Of Brookline. In addition