Anne Madeleine (Lena) Fairfax (1870–1926)
A private cable message received in Sydney yesterday morning announced the death at Cannes, in the South of France, of Mrs. Anne Madeleine (Lena) Fairfax, wife of Mr. G. E. Fairfax, a director of the Sydney Morning Herald.
Mrs. Fairfax was a daughter of the late Captain Hixson, R.N., and Mrs. Hixson, of Double Bay, Sydney.
Original publication
Additional Resources and Scholarship
- tribute, Sydney Morning Herald, 15 April 1926, p 8
Related Entries in NCB Sites
- Fairfax, Geoffrey Evan (husband)
- Hixson, Sarah (mother)
- Hixson, Francis (father)
- Fairfax, Lucy (mother-in-law)
- Fairfax, James Reading (father-in-law)
- Hixson, Francis William (brother)
- Hixson, Herbert Onslow (brother)
- Fairfax, Elsie Dora (sister-in-law)
- Fairfax, Marie Florence (sister-in-law)
- Fairfax, Mary Elizabeth (sister-in-law)
- Fairfax, Ruth Beatrice (sister-in-law)
- Fairfax, Charles Burton (brother-in-law)
- Fairfax, James Oswald (brother-in-law)
- Fairfax, Harold Walter (brother-in-law)
- Fairfax, John Hubert (brother-in-law)
- Fairfax, Edward Wilfred (brother-in-law)
- Machattie, Mary (aunt)
- Ross, Emily (aunt by marriage)
- Fairfax, Anne (aunt by marriage)
- Armstrong, William Francis (uncle by marriage)
- Fairfax, Charles John (uncle by marriage)
- Fairfax, Edward Ross (uncle by marriage)
- Machattie, Richard Randolph (uncle by marriage)
- Fairfax, Warwick Oswald (nephew)
- Fairfax, Nancy (niece by marriage)
- Fairfax, John Fitzgerald (nephew by marriage)
- Fairfax, Hubert Desmond (nephew by marriage)
- Fairfax, Vincent Charles (nephew by marriage)
Citation details
'Fairfax, Anne Madeleine (Lena) (1870–1926)', Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/fairfax-anne-madeleine-lena-13782/text24619, accessed 12 April 2025.
Life Summary [details]
Birth
1870
St Leonards, Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australia
Death
1926
(aged ~ 56)
Cannes,
France