[1][2] He grew up in Kent and Northumberland and attended Newcastle Royal Grammar School.
[3][4][5] Fairservice made a total of 59 appearances for Kent before leaving the county at the end of the 1933 season.
He spent the following two years qualifying to play for Middlesex, during which he made occasional first-class appearances for MCC.
[4] Fairservice worked at Stonyhurst College and then coached cricket and rugby at The King's School, Canterbury between 1954 and 1975.
[8] He died at Canterbury in 1999 aged 90, at the time Kent's oldest living cricketer.