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| Henry Fairfax R.N. | Explanation |
| Third son of Sir Henry Fairfax, Bart |
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| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal |
| 21 January 1837 | | Born (Edinburgh) |
| 1872 | 1783 | Naval attache to Sir Bartle Frere's mission to the Sultan of Zanzibar |
| 1872 | | Married Harriet, daughter of Sir David Kinloch |
| 19 January 1882 | | Naval aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria |
| 25 May 1896 | | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath) |
| 20 March 1900 | | Died (at Naples, while Commander-in-chief at Devonport) |
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| Date | Rank |
| 7 December 1850 | Entered Navy |
| 25 August 1858 | Lieutenant |
| 4 November 1862 | Commander |
| 3 April 1868 | Captain |
| 1 July 1885 | Rear-Admiral |
| 20 June 1891 | Vice-Admiral |
| 10 May 1897 | Admiral |
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| Date from | Date to | Service |
| 30 August 1860 | | Lieutenant in Ariel, commanded by John Hobhouse Inglis Alexander, Cape of Good Hope |
| 30 August 1860 | | Lieutenant in Ariel, commanded by John Hobhouse Inglis Alexander, Cape of Good Hope |
| 14 October 1867 | | Commander in Boscawen, training ship, Portland |
| 1869 | 1870 | Slave Trade section of the Foreign Office |
| (9 September 1870) | 17 February 1872 | Captain in Forte (until paying off at Sheerness), flagship of Rear-Admiral James Horsford Cockburn, East Indies |
| 1873 | 1874 | Private secretary to George Joachim Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty |
| 1874 | 1877 | Captain in Volage, south-east coast of America (senior officer) |
| 28 August 1877 | | Captain in Britannia, training ship for Naval cadets (including Princes Albert Victor and George), Dartmouth |
| 1882 | | Captain in Monarch, Mediterranean (including bombardment of Alexandria, and in command of the Naval and Marine forces occupying Port Said) |
| 1 February 1887 | 10 September 1889 | Commander-in-chief, Australia |
| 10 June 1889 | 28 March 1900 | Commander-in-chief, Devonport |
| 24 October 1889 | 20 May 1892 | Commissioner of the Admiralty (Second Naval Lord) |
| 10 May 1892 | 27 May 1895 | Commander-in-chief, Channel squadron (being acquitted by Court-martial after Howe stranded on an uncharted rock entering Ferrol harbour on 2 November 1892) |
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