J. Griffyth Fairfax

James Griffyth Fairfax (15 July 1886 – 27 January 1976) was a British poet, translator, and politician.

J. Griffyth Fairfax
Born	James Griffyth Fairfax (1886-07-15)15 July 1886 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	27 January 1976(1976-01-27) (aged 89) France
Nationality	Anglo–Australian
Education	Winchester School
Alma mater	New College, Oxford
Occupation(s)	poet; translator; politician
Parents	Charles Burton Fairfax[1] (father) Florence Fairfax (née Frazer)[1] (mother)
Relatives	Sir James Reading Fairfax (grandfather) John Fairfax (great-grandfather)
Member of Parliament for Norwich
In office 29 October 1924 (1924-10-29) – 30 May 1929 (1929-05-30) Serving with Hilton Young
Preceded by	Dorothy Jewson; Walter Robert Smith
Succeeded by	Walter Robert Smith; Geoffrey Shakespeare
Personal details
Political party	Conservative and Unionist Party
Military career
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Rank	Captain
Unit	Royal Army Service Corps
Commands	15th Indian Division
War	World War I

Biography

Fairfax, a great-grandson of the Australian newspaper tycoon John Fairfax, was a member of the Fairfax family, and was educated at Winchester School and New College, Oxford. Fairfax departed permanently from Australia in 1904.^[2]

He served in the 15th Indian Division for the duration of the First World War, and rose to the rank of captain in the Army Service Corps.

His first volume of poetry was published in 1906. He was also active in literary circles and had an influence on and was influenced by his friend Ezra Pound.^[2]

Married Rosetta Mary Glover, 10 October 1922 at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge^[3] the daughter of Captain Sir John Hawley Glover.

Fairfax was a Member of the UK House of Commons representing the borough constituency of Norwich for the Conservative and Unionist Party from the 1924 election until the 1929 election.^[1]

Published works

• Fairfax, J. G.; University of California Libraries (1914). The horns of Taurus. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
• Fairbairn, J. V.; Fairfax, J. G. (1960). Civil aviation in Australia. Canberra: Canberra Pub. Co.

Poetry

• Fairfax, J. G. (1906). The Gates of Sleep and other poems. London: Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street.
• Fairfax, J. G. (1919). Mesopotamia: sonnets and lyrics at home and abroad, 1914-1919. London: John Murray.
• Billington, William John, ed. (1921). Catalogue of the war poetry collection presented by and anonymous donor in memory of Private William John Billington. Birmingham Public Libraries.
• Fairfax, J. G. (1937) The Fifth Element. London: John Murray.
• Gardner, Brian, ed. (1964). Up the Line to Death: The War Poets 1914-18. London: Methuen.
• Fairfax, J. G. (2013). "The forest of the dead". In Dapin, Mark (ed.). From the trenches: the best ANZAC writing of World War One. Melbourne, Victoria: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-07781-6.