Andrew Fairbairn (politician)

Sir Andrew Fairbairn (5 March 1828 – 30 May 1901)[1] was a British Liberal politician.

Fairbairn was born in Glasgow, the son of Sir Peter Fairbairn, of Woodsley House, Leeds and his wife Margaret Kennedy and educated at Geneva, at Glasgow, and at Peterhouse, Cambridge.

He became a captain in the Yorkshire Hussar Yeoman Cavalry and major in the 7th West Riding Rifle Volunteers.

[5] In 1892 he served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire Sir Andrew lived at Goldsborough Hall, near Knaresborough during the 1870s, leased from the Lascelles family of Harewood House and built Askham Grange in 1886 as his country house.

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