Thomas Fairfax, 9th Lord Fairfax of Cameron was thrice married and his son by his third wife, Margaret Herbert (1783–1858), Albert, who had died during the lifetime of his father, left two sons, Charles and John.
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The 7th Baron, Robert Fairfax, died without issue in 1793 and the title descended to an American second cousin, the Rev. Bryan Fairfax (1736–1802), was a priest of the Episcopal Church and rector of parish in Alexandria, who was the son of William Fairfax(1691–1757) of Belvoir and Deborah Clarke (1707–1747).
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He was collaterally related to Thomas, the 6th Lord Fairfax, who relinquished his English estates to his brother, Robert, and emigrated to America, where he settled on a plantation of more than a million acres (4,000 km²) in Virginia, which he inherited from his mother, Catherine Colepeper.
He had represented Queen Elizabeth I on several diplomatic missions to James VI of Scotland and also sat as a Member of Parliament for several constituencies in the English Parliament.
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He was born in Yorkshire the eldest son of Ellen Aske and Thomas Fairfax, whom Charles I in 1627 created Lord Fairfax of Cameron in the Peerage of Scotland and received a military education in the Netherlands.