Fairfax Luxmoore

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Luxmoore's Garden
Fuff with a bust of his great-grandfather, HE Luxmoore, at Luxmoore;s Garden at Eton. HE was a  noted
housemaster  at Eton in the 1800s

Fairfax - or Fuff as he is universally known - was born on 17th July 1940 to Annette Luxmoore (nee Pugh, later Lawford) and Wing-Commander Arthur Luxmoore. Arthur crashed and died in Belgium in 1941. Annette married Patrick Lawford in 1944 and Herry (1945) and Piers (1947) became his half-brothers.

Fuff went to St Ronan's, where he was a fine athlete, then to Charterhouse where he excelled at hockey, and thereafter to Cirencester, where he had an energetic social life.

In 1961, Fuff and two friends drove a Jaguar from England all the way to India via Iran and Afghanistan. They sold it in India and Fuff continued on to Australia by ship, arriving in Perth. From there he rode a motorbike all the way across the Nullarbor Plain to the east coast, finally ending up in New Zealand.

In 1963 Fuff married Belinda Roberts from Thirsk, Yorkshire and they lived at Castell Howell, an arable and sheep farm near Newquay in Wales. They had two children, Jessica (1965) and Justin (1967).

Belinda ('Bin') was a superb cook as well as an accomplished swimmer and skier and used to take parties of skiers on Ski Club of Great Britain outings. Fuff skied too, and they sometimes visited Engleberg with Bin's cousin, Dominic Thompson.

Castell Howell was built up into a holiday centre with a riding school, squash courts and a swimming pool but was sold following their divorce. Bin went on to run a fine hotel at Minmore, Glenlivet, but very sadly died of cancer in 1995.

Justin married Imo (Imogen Bertlin) and they had Kesia, Ben and Chiara and they live in the Blackdown Hills.

Jessica moved to Australia and married Nick Holmes and had Jack and Max, but is divorced and still lives in Adelaide.  

Fuff married Dilys Von Tromp in 1986 and together they ran an inn in the village of Kelmscott.

Coryndon was born to Fuff and Dilys in 1989 - and in 2008 Ryn married Charmaine. They had a daughter Sinead, born in August 2008. Following Ryn and Charmaine's divorce, Ryn has partnered Natasha 'Tash' and had two more daughters, Meela and Alaya. 

Fuff remarried in July 2008 - Lucy Allen, a music teacher in London - and lived in Plymouth. Lucy had three children - Camilla, Hugh and Ralph - and she ran hugely successful choirs in Plymouth until she very sadly died of cancer in September 2019.

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