Thomas Fairfax

Sir Thomas Fairfax ( – 1520) was an owner of Gilling Castle, near Gilling East, North Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Sir Thomas Fairfax (father) Fairfax's father Thomas Fairfax (d. 1505) successfully claimed the ownership of the Gilling Estate during two inquisitions, the first of which was in 1489. Thomas Fairfax (d. 1505) married Elizabeth, who was the daughter of Robert Sherburne of Lancashire, by whom he had nine children, the eldest of whom was Thomas Fairfax (d. 1520). Their other children were Richard, Robert, John, Jane, Elizabeth, Isabel, Anne, and Dorothy. Agnes third cousin was Margaret Tudor, who was the wife of James IV and the daughter of Elizabeth of York and Henry VII of England.

Agnes's father was Sir William Gascoigne The Younger of York, who descended from the famous judge Sir William Gascoigne. Fairfax made his wife executrix of his estate.

Issue Fairfax and Agnes Gascoigne had six sons and six daughters. On his death, he left his estate to his son Nicholas.