J. Griffyth Fairfax

• Name — J. Griffyth Fairfax • Birth Name — James Griffyth Fairfax • Born — 15 July 1886 • Birthplace — Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Died — 27 January 1976 • Place of death — France • Occupation — poet; translator; politician • Father — Charles Burton Fairfax • Mother — Florence Fairfax (née Frazer) • Education — Winchester School • Alma Mater — New College, Oxford • Relatives — * Sir James Reading Fairfax (grandfather) • John Fairfax (great-grandfather)

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. Married Rosetta Mary Glover, 10 October 1922 at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge 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.

* * * • Fairfax, J. G. (1937) The Fifth Element. London: John Murray. * *