Dewsbury.
_Lord Fairfax._--In the _Peerage of Scotland_ I find this entry:
"Fairfax, Baron, Charles Snowdon Fairfax, 1627, Baron Fairfax, of
Cameron; suc. his grandfather, Thomas, ninth baron, 1846. His lordship
resides at Woodburne, in Maryland, United States."
Fairfax is not a Scotch name. And I can find no trace of any person of that
family taking a part in Scotch affairs. _Cameron_ is, I suppose, the parish
of that name in the east of Fife.
I wish to ask, 1st. For what services, or under what circumstances, the
barony was created?
2ndly. When did the family cease to possess land or other property in
Scotland, if they ever held any?
3rdly. Is the present peer a citizen or subject of the United States? If
so, is he known and addressed as _Lord_ Fairfax, or how?
4thly. Has he, or has any of his ancestors, since the recognition of the
United States as a nation, ever used or applied for permission to exercise
the functions of a peer of Scotland, _e.g._ in the election of
representative peers?
5thly. If he be a subject of the United States, and have taken, expressly
or by implication, the oath of citizenship (which pointedly renounces
allegiance to our sovereign), how is it that his name is retained on the
roll of a body whose first duty it is to guard the throne, and whose
existence is a denial of the first proposition in the constitution of his
country?
Perhaps UNEDA, W. W., or some other of your Philadelphia correspondents,
will be good enough to notice the third of these Queries.