page_title: Fairfax family
section_title: Generational history
hierarchical_section_title: Fairfax family / Generational history
caption_attribution_description: Format: Photoprint Notes: John Fairfax (1804-1877) was the founder of an Australian newspaper publishing dynasty. In 1841 he bought the Sydney Herald, renaming it the Sydney Monring Herald in 1842. The SMH remains one of the major New South Wales newspapers to this day. www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040154b.htm Find more detailed information about this photograph: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=239950 Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/SimpleSearch.aspx From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales www.sl.nsw.gov.au
context_page_description: Members of the Fairfax Family were prominent as Australian media proprietors, especially in the area of newspaper publishing through the company John Fairfax and Sons. Some members have also been prominent in Australian philanthropy and the arts.
  Six generations of the family are descended from Anglo-Celtic immigrants to Australia, patriarch John Fairfax, an English-born journalist, and his wife, Sarah. Both were from the Barford area of Warwickshire, and emigrated to the Colony of New South Wales in 1838.
caption: John Fairfax, ca. 1861
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