Thomas Fairfax, 13th Lord Fairfax of Cameron

Thomas Brian McKelvie Fairfax, 13th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (14 May 1923 – 8 April 1964) was a British Army officer and Conservative politician.

Career He served in World War II as a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards. In 1945, he was elected a Scottish representative peer, and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Lord President of the Council (Lord Woolton and Lord Salisbury respectively) from 1951 to 1953 and to the Minister of Materials (Lord Woolton) between 1953 and 1954. In 1954 he was made a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords), a post he held until 1957.

Personal life In 1951, Lord Fairfax of Cameron married Sonia Helen Gunston, younger daughter of Cecil Bernard Gunston, MC, and his wife Lady Doris Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood. Lady Doris was the eldest daughter of Terence Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 2nd Marquess of Dufferin and Ava. They had four children: The Hon. Serena Frances Fairfax; Nicholas Fairfax, 14th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, who married Annabella Ruth, eldest daughter of Nicholas and Sarah Gilham Morriss, and succeeded his father; The Hon. Hugh Nigel Thomas Fairfax; and The Hon. Rupert Alexander James Fairfax. He died in April 1964, aged 40, and was succeeded by his eight-year-old son, Nicholas. In 1967, his widow Lady Fairfax of Cameron was appointed Temporary Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth II.