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. As the gentry of Yorkshire refused to serve under a Catholic, he and the other Yorkshire lieutenants were replaced by the Protestant Duke of Newcastle in October 1688.''Memoirs of Sir John Reresby'', p. 274 Lord Fairfax of Emley married Abigail Yate, daughter of Sir John Yate, 2nd Baronet. Their daughter, the Honourable Alathea Fairfax, married William Widdrington, 3rd Baron Widdrington, and was the mother of

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. Lord Fairfax of Emley died in July 1711. He had no sons and was succeeded in the title by his nephew, Charles.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fairfax Of Emley, Charles Fairfax, 5th Viscount 1711 deaths English Roman Catholics Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland Lord-Lieutenants of the North Riding of Yorkshire Year of birth unknown