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James Oswald Fairfax AC (27 March 1933 – 11 January 2017) was an Australian company director, philanthropist, and a member of the Fairfax family, an Australian family prominent in the newspaper publisher industry.
James Fairfax was born on 10 August 1897 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Against All Flags (1952), Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950) and Last Train from Bombay (1952). He was married to Jessie C. Adams. He died on 8 May 1961 in Papeete, Tahiti.
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Jan 12, 2017 · James Fairfax retained a collection of classical European art, reputedly one of the finest in Australia. As the chairman of the media group then known as John Fairfax Ltd, he was, by necessity, more reserved.
With James Fairfax’s passing yesterday, Australia has lost one of its greatest arts patrons and philanthropists, and the National Gallery of Australia has lost one of its founders.
James Oswald Fairfax, a true philantropist, saw his life, his wealth, his cultural inheritance, his very being, as a force to enable other people.
Jan 12, 2017 · James Fairfax, the philanthropist and former chairman of media group John Fairfax & Sons, who helped establish the independence of its newspapers, died on Wednesday, aged 83, at his home at ...
James Fairfax was a British actor who appeared in several films in the 1950s, such as Against All Flags and Fortunes of Captain Blood. He was born in 1897 in England and died in 1961 in Tahiti.
