J. Griffyth Fairfax

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| birth_name = James Griffyth Fairfax

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1886|07|15|df=y}}

| birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1976|01|27|1886|07|15|df=y}}

| death_place = France

| nationality = Anglo{{endash}}Australian

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| occupation = poet; translator; politician

| father = Charles Burton Fairfax{{cite web |title=Fairfax, Charles Burton (1859–1941) |work=Obituaries Australia |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |url=http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/fairfax-charles-burton-13802/text24651 |accessdate=26 March 2016 }}

| mother = {{nowrap|Florence Fairfax (née Frazer)}}

| education = Winchester School

| alma_mater = New College, Oxford

| relations = {{unbulleted list|{{nowrap|Sir James Reading Fairfax (grandfather)}}|John Fairfax (great-grandfather)}}

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| constituency_MP = Norwich

| parliament = United Kingdom

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| term_start = {{start date|1924|10|29|df=y}}

| term_end = {{end date|1929|05|30|df=y}}

| alongside = Hilton Young

| predecessor = {{nowrap|Dorothy Jewson; Walter Robert Smith}}

| successor = {{nowrap|Walter Robert Smith; Geoffrey Shakespeare}}

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| party = Conservative and Unionist Party

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| allegiance = {{Flag|United Kingdom}}

| branch = British Army

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| rank = Captain

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| unit = Royal Army Service Corps

| commands = 15th Indian Division

| battles_label = War

| battles = World War I

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James Griffyth Fairfax (15 July 1886{{spaced endash}}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.

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A20835 |title=J. Griffyth Fairfax |work=AustLit |publisher=The University of Queensland |accessdate=25 March 2016 }}

Married Rosetta Mary Glover, 10 October 1922 at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge{{cite web |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/245777505 |title=A Club-Woman's Notebook (news item) |publisher=The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) |date=1922-12-02 |accessdate=22 January 2024 }} 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.

Published works

{{cite book |author1=Fairfax, J. G. |author2=University of California Libraries |title=The horns of Taurus |publication-date=1914 |publisher=Smith, Elder & Co. |location=London |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10298660 }}
{{cite book |title=Civil aviation in Australia |publication-date=1960 |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34612407 |author1=Fairbairn, J. V. |authorlink1=James Fairbairn |author2=Fairfax, J. G. |location=Canberra |publisher=Canberra Pub. Co. }}

=Poetry=

{{cite book |author=Fairfax, J. G. |title=The Gates of Sleep and other poems |publication-date=1906 |publisher=Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street |location=London |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/12000592?q&versionId=14148924 }}
{{cite book |author=Fairfax, J. G. |title=Mesopotamia: sonnets and lyrics at home and abroad, 1914-1919 |publication-date=1919 |publisher=John Murray |location=London |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/18995102 }}
{{cite book |editor1=Billington, William John |title=Catalogue of the war poetry collection presented by and anonymous donor in memory of Private William John Billington |publication-date=1921 |publisher=Birmingham Public Libraries |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/26858290 }}
Fairfax, J. G. (1937) The Fifth Element. London: John Murray.
{{cite book |title=Up the Line to Death: The War Poets 1914-18 |editor=Gardner, Brian |location=London |publisher=Methuen |publication-date=1964 }}
{{cite book |author=Fairfax, J. G. |chapter=The forest of the dead |editor1=Dapin, Mark |title=From the trenches: the best ANZAC writing of World War One |publication-date=2013 |location=Melbourne, Victoria |publisher=Viking |isbn=978-0-670-07781-6 }}

References

External links

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[http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/lffairfax.html J. Griffyth Fairfax Collextion] at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin

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| title = Member of Parliament for Norwich

| with = Hilton Young

| before = Dorothy Jewson
Walter Robert Smith

| after = Walter Robert Smith
Geoffrey Shakespeare

| years = 1924–1929

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Category:Alumni of New College, Oxford

Category:Royal Army Service Corps officers

Category:British Army personnel of World War I

Category:Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies

James Griffyth