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Name	John Fitzgerald Fairfax
Born	18 April, 1904 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	31 October, 1951 (aged 47) Tumut, New South Wales, Australia
Cause of Death	suicide
Religious Influence	Anglican Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Fairfax, James Oswald (uncle) Fairfax, John Hubert (uncle) Fairfax, Ruth Beatrice (aunt by marriage) Fairfax, James Reading (grandfather) Fairfax, Warwick Oswald (cousin) Henderson, Rupert Albert Geary (work colleague)
Education *	Geelong Grammar School (Vic) (student, 1916-1921) Oxford University (student, 1923-1925)
Occupation or Descriptor *	essayist (1922-1951) New South Wales, Australia journalist (1922-1944) New South Wales, Australia soldier (1940-1943) Federal, Australia war correspondent (1943-1944) newspaper owner (1944-1951) New South Wales, Australia
Clubs *	Union Club (Sydney) (member, 1927-1951)
Workplaces *	Sydney Morning Herald (newspaper) (journalist, 1928-1944) John Fairfax & Sons Pty Ltd (director, 1944-1946)

* Dates are approximate