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Charles James Fox

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Charles James Fox

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Also known as Charles, I Fox, Charles I Fox, Charles Fox I, Charles Fox, Rt. Hon. Charles James Fox

British Whig statesman (1749–1806)

Person · Open Library

Born
1809
Died
1886
Works
13

Top works

  • On some vegetable remains from Madeira
  • Life, letters and journals
  • Journal of a Residence at the Cape of Good Hope
  • Journal of a Residence at the Cape of Good Hope with Excursions into the Interior, and Notes on the Natural History, and the Native Tribes
  • Memorials of Sir C. J. F. Bunbury, Bart

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Type
Person
Country
GB
Active from
1939-05-19

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
26
Total plays
38

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Quotes

  • The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

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Key facts

Prime minister
William Grenville
Preceded by
The Lord Mulgrave
Succeeded by
Viscount Howick
Born
( 1749-01-24 ) 24 January 1749, London , England
Died
13 September 1806 (1806-09-13) (aged 57), Chiswick , Middlesex , England
Resting place
Westminster Abbey
Party
Whig ( Foxite )
Spouse
Elizabeth Armistead
Parents
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland Lady Caroline Lennox
Relatives
Fox family
Education
Eton College
Alma mater
Hertford College, Oxford
Profession
Statesman , abolitionist

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Encyclopedic overview

Canting arms of Fox, Baron Holland: Ermine, on a chevron azure three fox's heads and necks erased or on a canton of the second a fleur-de-lys of the third

Charles James Fox (24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the arch-rival of the Tory politician William Pitt the Younger; his father Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, a leading Whig of his day, had similarly been the great rival of Pitt's famous father, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham ("Pitt the Elder").

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