"Death of a Crimean Officer," Inverness Courier, Jan. 24, 1902, p. 3d.
 
"The death has occurred, at Hastings, of Colonel Sir William Ramsay-Fairfax, who was born in 1831, the eldest son of the first baronet and the daughter of Mr T. Williamson-Ramsay, of Maxton, Roxburghshire. Sir William Ramsay Fairfax succeeded his father in 1860, and married in 1868 Mary, only daughter of Mr William J. Pawson, of Shawdon, Northumberland. He entered the army in 1851, and served with the 31st Regiment in the Crimea, being present at the siege and fail of Sebastopol. Sir W. Ramsay-Fairfax served in India in 1858-59, and from 1860 to 1864 was A.D.C. to the Governor at Malta. In 1865-66 he was A.D.C. to Viscount Templetown, commander Western District."