FAIRFAX, EDWARD, natural son of Sir Thomas Fairfax, was an English poet who lived in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. He wrote several poetical pieces, and was an accomplished genius. Dryden introduces Fairfax with Spenser, as the leading writers of the times; and even seems to give the preference to the former in the way of harmony, when he observes that Waller owned himself indebted for the harmony of his numbers to Fairfax's Godfrey of Boulogne. He died about the year 1632, at his own house called New-hall, in the parish of Fuyston, between Denton and Knareborough, and lies under a marble stone.