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Baronetcy in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Charlecote Park circa 1880, the former seat of the Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy family
The
Fairfax
, later
Ramsay-Fairfax
, later
Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy Baronetcy
, of The Holmes in the
County of Roxburgh
, is a title in the
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
.
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It was created on 14 March 1836 for Henry Fairfax, in honour of his father,
Vice Admiral
Sir William George Fairfax
. The second Baronet
assumed the additional surname
of Ramsay in 1876, which was the
maiden name
of his maternal grandmother. The third Baronet assumed by
Royal Licence
the additional surname of Lucy in 1892 after his marriage to Ada Christina Lucy, daughter and heiress of Henry Spencer Lucy. In 1921 he added by Royal licence the additional surname of Cameron, making this quadruple-barrelled name a notable example of
the British tradition of concatenated surnames
.
The sixth Baronet was the husband of
Lucinda Lambton
, architectural writer, between 1986 and 1989.
Charlecote Park
in the village of
Charlecote
in
Warwickshire
came into the Fairfax family through the marriage of the third Baronet to Ada Christina Lucy. The previous owners of Charlecote Park, the
Lucy family
, had become extinct in the male line. In the 20th century the family fell on harder times and they gave Charlecote Park to the
National Trust
.
The
Lords Fairfax of Cameron
are members of another branch of the Fairfax family.
Fairfax, later Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy baronets, of The Holmes (1836)
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See also
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References
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- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors).
Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage
(1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
- Leigh Rayment's list of baronets