| The Lord Fairfax of Cameron | |
| Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| Birth Name: | Nicholas John Albert Fairfax |
| Birth Date: | 4 January 1956 |
| Office1: | Member of the House of Lords |
| Status1: | Lord Temporal |
| Term Label1: | as a hereditary peer |
| Term Start1: | 16 February 1977 |
| Term End1: | 11 November 1999 |
| Predecessor1: | The 13th Lord Fairfax of Cameron |
| Successor1: | Seat abolished |
| Term Label2: | as an elected hereditary peer |
| Term Start2: | 26 November 2015 |
| 1Blankname2: | By-election |
| 1Namedata2: | 26 November 2015 |
| Predecessor2: | The Lord Montagu of Beaulieu |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Alma Mater: | Eton College Downing College |
| Parents: | Thomas Fairfax, 13th Lord Fairfax of Cameron Sonia Helen Gunston |
Nicholas John Albert Fairfax, 14th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (born 4 January 1956) is a British peer and Conservative politician. He is the current holder of the title of Lord Fairfax of Cameron, succeeding his father, Thomas Fairfax, 13th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, in 1964.
Nicholas John Albert Fairfax was born 4 January 1956, the eldest son of Thomas Fairfax, 13th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1923–1964), and his wife, Sonia Helen Gunston (1927–2017). Fairfax was educated at Eton and Downing College, Cambridge (LLB in International Law), is a barrister and was called to the Bar following becoming a member of Gray's Inn (1977).
Lord Fairfax's directorships of several companies are as follows: Thomas Miller P and I, and Thomas Miller Defence, 1987–1990; Sedgwick Marine & Cargo Ltd, 1995–1996; British-Georgian Soc. Ltd, 2006; Sovcomflot (UK) Ltd, since 2005; Sovcomflot, 2007. He is Patron of AMUR Tiger and Leopard Charity, 2006. He is a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of the Shipwrights' Company.
He was a member of the House of Lords first from 1977 to 1999. In November 2015, he was elected to return to the House at a Conservative hereditary peers' by-election, following the death of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu (1926–2015).[1]
In 2020, Lord Fairfax endorsed Justin Fairfax, Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. state of Virginia, in his bid for Governor in the 2021 Virginia gubernatorial election. Lt. Gov. Fairfax's great-great-great-grandfather was a slave manumitted by Thomas Fairfax, 9th Lord Fairfax of Cameron.[2]
In 1982, he married Annabella Ruth Morriss (born 13 January 1957), eldest daughter of Nicholas and of Sarah Gilham Morriss, of Newmarket, by whom he has three sons:[3]
His heir apparent to the title is his eldest son, the Hon. Edward Nicholas Thomas Fairfax.