Basil Edward Fairfax-Ross CBE (4 April 1910 – 9 November 1984) was an Australian businessman who spent much of his career in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.
[1] Following a short spell as a jackaroo, he moved to the Territory of Papua in 1931 to become a plantation assistant for Burns Philp.
[1] He became assistant general manager at the British New Guinea Development Company in the same year, and was elected president of the Papua Planters' Association in 1949, a post he held until 1971.
He retired from the British New Guinea Development Company in 1971 and moved to the Mosman area of Sydney, although remaining a director of Burns Philp and Bougainville Copper.
[1] He died at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney in November 1984 at the age of 74, survived by his wife and two daughters.