| Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable | ||||||||
| The Lord Fairfax of Cameron | |||||||||
| Birth Date: | 14 May 1923 | ||||||||
| Death Date: | 8 April 1964 (aged 40) | ||||||||
| Death Place: | London, England | ||||||||
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| 13th Lord Fairfax of Cameron | |||||||||
| Years Active: | 1939 - 1964 | ||||||||
| Parents: | Albert Fairfax, 12th Lord Fairfax of Cameron Maude Wishart McKelvie | ||||||||
| Spouse: | Sonia Helen Gunston | ||||||||
Thomas Brian McKelvie Fairfax, 13th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (14 May 1923 – 8 April 1964) was a British Army officer, Conservative politician and peer.
Thomas Brian McKelvie Fairfax was born on 14 May 1923 and was the son of Albert Fairfax, 12th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1870–1939), and Maude Wishart McKelvie, daughter of James McKelvie, who were married in 1922. He had a younger brother, Peregrine John Wishart Fairfax (1925–2012).[1]
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.
In 1951, Lord Fairfax of Cameron married Sonia Helen Gunston (1926–2017), 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 (1866–1918). They had:
He died in April 1964, aged only 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.