Nathaniel was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, as a member of which he proceeded M.A.
[1][2] During the Commonwealth he was presented to the perpetual curacy of Willisham, Suffolk, whence he was ejected in 1662 for refusing to conform.
at Leyden in 1670,[3] on which occasion he published his inaugural dissertation De Lumbricis.
With an Answer to Tentamina de Deo, by S[amuel] P[arker], D.D.,[5] which is curious for the affected exclusion of all words borrowed from the learned languages.
Although he was never a fellow, Fairfax contributed some papers to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, among them one giving ‘instances of peculiarities of nature both in men and brutes’.