J. Griffyth Fairfax

RelativesMember of Parliament
for NorwichIn office
29 October 1924 (1924-10-29) – 30 May 1929 (1929-05-30)Preceded byDorothy Jewson; Walter Robert SmithSucceeded byWalter Robert Smith; Geoffrey Shakespeare Personal detailsPolitical partyConservative and Unionist Party Military careerAllegiance United KingdomService/branchBritish ArmyRankCaptainUnitRoyal Army Service CorpsCommands held15th Indian DivisionWarWorld War I

James Griffyth Fairfax (15 July 1886 – 27 January 1976) was a British poet, translator, and politician.

Biography

Fairfax, a great-grandson of the Australian newspaper tycoon John Fairfax, was a member of the Fairfax family, and was educated at Winchester School and New College, Oxford. Fairfax departed permanently from Australia in 1904.^[2]

He served in the 15th Indian Division for the duration of the First World War, and rose to the rank of captain in the Army Service Corps.

His first volume of poetry was published in 1906. He was also active in literary circles and had an influence on and was influenced by his friend Ezra Pound.^[2]

Married Rosetta Mary Glover, 10 October 1922 at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge^[3] the daughter of Captain Sir John Hawley Glover.

Fairfax was a Member of the UK House of Commons representing the borough constituency of Norwich for the Conservative and Unionist Party from the 1924 election until the 1929 election.^[1]

Published works

• Fairfax, J. G.; University of California Libraries (1914). The horns of Taurus. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
• Fairbairn, J. V.; Fairfax, J. G. (1960). Civil aviation in Australia. Canberra: Canberra Pub. Co.

Poetry

• Fairfax, J. G. (1906). The Gates of Sleep and other poems. London: Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street.
• Fairfax, J. G. (1919). Mesopotamia: sonnets and lyrics at home and abroad, 1914-1919. London: John Murray.
• Billington, William John, ed. (1921). Catalogue of the war poetry collection presented by and anonymous donor in memory of Private William John Billington. Birmingham Public Libraries.
• Fairfax, J. G. (1937) The Fifth Element. London: John Murray.
• Gardner, Brian, ed. (1964). Up the Line to Death: The War Poets 1914-18. London: Methuen.
• Fairfax, J. G. (2013). "The forest of the dead". In Dapin, Mark (ed.). From the trenches: the best ANZAC writing of World War One. Melbourne, Victoria: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-07781-6.

References

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by J. Griffyth Fairfax
• J. Griffyth Fairfax Collextion at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Dorothy Jewson Walter Robert Smith	Member of Parliament for Norwich 1924–1929 With: Hilton Young	Succeeded by Walter Robert Smith Geoffrey Shakespeare