The Daily Telegraph of Monday gives some interesting details as
to Lord Fairfax, whose death took place on Friday week at his plantation, Northampton, Prince George County, Maryland,—a house a hundred and fifty years old, with an estate of some seven hundred acres attached to it. Lord Fairfax, who was a direct descendant of the great Parlia- mentary Commander-in-Chief, though a Peer of Scotland, was a citizen of the United States. Though he did not, of course, assume the title, it was not in any sense dormant, and its pas- sage through male heirs ever since the family have lived in America has been well recognised. The title descends to the late Lord's eldest son, who is a clerk in the New York banking house of Brown Brothers and Co. The fact that this most historic title belongs to an American is a pleasant and picturesque illustration of how closely the two nations are allied by blood. We wish the title were not a Scotch one, and that Lord Fairfax could every now and again take his seat in the House of Lords as "the noble Lord from the United States."
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