Artist: Robert Wadsworth Grafton (1876–1936)
Henry Fairfax
FAIRFAX, HENRY (1850–1916), inducted 1916
Educated at Virginia Military Institute, Henry Fairfax was a civil engineer who inherited the Oak Hill Farm near Roanoke, Virginia, from his father. Oak Hill had been the estate of President James Monroe. Fairfax served in the state senate from 1890 to 1900 but is best known for breeding and showing Hackney horses. He was president of the Hackney Breeders’ Association of America and the Virginia State Fair Association. Upon his death, funds were raised for this portrait, and Virginia Governor Henry Carter Stuart gifted it to the Saddle & Sirloin Club during the International.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 87