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

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.

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 1908. He was also active in literary circles and had an influence on and was influenced by his friend Ezra Pound.

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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. From the trenches: the best ANZAC writing of World War One. Melbourne, Victoria: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-07781-6.