AMERICAN-BORN PEER.

Shannon News, 7 February 1922, Page 1

AMERICAN-BORN PEER.

TO MARRY SUSSEX GIRL. London, .January ‘J. Lord Fairfax, of Cameron, the Ame-rican-born British peer, who reclaimed his title as twelith baron of the Fair- | fax line after its holders from the / sixth baron on had been American , citizens, has announced his engageI ment to Miss Maud McKelvie, of Sus- ! sex. j Lord Fairfax, who left a clerk’s ; desk in the office of Brown Brothers , Co., New York, in 1908, at the invita- ! lion of - King Edward, arid waged a ! fight for his English rights, is a baclie- : lor of 51 years. His friends have been long in doubt ( which country would be called on for a wife to share the title, lor the diplomatic Fairfax, when called on to express his views on girls ill the United States and England, said:— “The women of the two countries, though differing in many ways, are equally lovable and delightful.” The peerage which he holds was created in 1627, and the second baron fought with Cromwell when Prince. Rupert was defeated at Marston Mood. The sixth ballon, however, sold his Yorkshire estate when pressed for funds, and went with liis family t<s Virginia in 1747. The present holder of the title was horn there in the county named after his family. The present heir to the peerage is fiis brother, Charles E. Fairfax, a resident of New York.