Thomas Fairfax (English Wikipedia)

In the winter of 1642/43 Parliamentary victories were few and far between. One of the more notable was the capture of Leeds on 23 January 1643 by Parliamentary forces under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax. The London news broadsheets published the exploits and one of them suggested that Fairfax was "the Rider of the White Horse", the allegory was immediately clear to those of a Puritan leaning as it was a passage in the Book of Revelation 19:11 "And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war", and hence implying to the Puritan supporters of Parliament that Fairfax was a hero doing God's work. (Hopper 2007, p. 174) Hopper, Andrew (2007), Black Tom: Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution (illustrated ed.), Manchester University Press, pp. 174, ISBN 9780719071096
Cooke, D. (2004). The Civil War in Yorkshire: Fairfax Versus Newcastle. Casemate Publishers. p. 52. ISBN 1844150763. Retrieved 3 August 2019. Sir Thomas Fairfax summed up the Battle of Seacroft Moor as 'the greatest loss we ever received'.

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Hall, George (2022). "Thomas Fairfax: The Forgotten Leader". The Cromwell Museum. Archived from the original on 16 January 2024. Retrieved 16 January 2024.

Eales, Jacqueline. "Fairfax [née Vere], Anne, Lady Fairfax". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/66848. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Helms & Cruickshanks 1983 Helms, M. W.; Cruickshanks, Eveline (1983), "Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron [S] (1612–71), of Nun Appleton, Yorks.", in Henning, B. D. (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660–1690, Boydell and Brewer

Marvell, Andrew. "Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax". Luminarium. Retrieved 6 August 2017.

Eales, Jacqueline. "Fairfax [née Vere], Anne, Lady Fairfax". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/66848. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

"Jerome Willis obituary". The Guardian. 26 January 2014. Retrieved 22 February 2024.

Plant 2005, Sir Thomas, Lord Fairfax 1612–1671. Plant, David (21 June 2005), Sir Thomas, Lord Fairfax 1612–1671, british-civil-wars.co.uk, archived from the original on 3 February 2020, retrieved 17 May 2011.^{[better source needed]}
Hall, George (2022). "Thomas Fairfax: The Forgotten Leader". The Cromwell Museum. Archived from the original on 16 January 2024. Retrieved 16 January 2024.

In the winter of 1642/43 Parliamentary victories were few and far between. One of the more notable was the capture of Leeds on 23 January 1643 by Parliamentary forces under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax. The London news broadsheets published the exploits and one of them suggested that Fairfax was "the Rider of the White Horse", the allegory was immediately clear to those of a Puritan leaning as it was a passage in the Book of Revelation 19:11 "And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war", and hence implying to the Puritan supporters of Parliament that Fairfax was a hero doing God's work. (Hopper 2007, p. 174) Hopper, Andrew (2007), Black Tom: Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution (illustrated ed.), Manchester University Press, pp. 174, ISBN 9780719071096

Hutchinson, A. (11 June 2019). "A - Z of Leeds". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 3 August 2019. B is for Beechwood - Ancestral home of a Leeds dynasty which has links to Kate Middleton and Sir Thomas Fairfax, who helped win English Civil War for Oliver Cromwell. Today the mansion is used as offices but it was once the family home of the Luptons.