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Charles James Fox was one of the most colourful figures in eighteenth century politics. Notorious for the excesses of his private life, he was at the same time one of the leading politicians of his generation, dominating the Whig party and polite society.
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Charles James Fox, né à Londres le 24 janvier 1749 et mort à Chiswick le 13 septembre 1806, est un homme d'État britannique et l'une des principales figures politiques du Parti whig dont la carrière parlementaire s'étale de la fin du XVIIIe siècle au début du XIXe siècle.
"Charles James Fox PC (24 January 1749? 13 September 1806), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned thirty-eight years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and who was particularly noted for being the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger.
Up to the end of the 1780s, the prominence of Charles Fox in England owed as much to his position in society as to politics. He was a leading figure at Brooks's and Newmarket as well as Westminster. Fox enjoyed and encouraged friendships more than most men. Foxite politics was often an extension of friendship.
4 de jul. de 2000 · And Macaulay gushed that Fox was “the most brilliant and powerful debater who ever lived.”. Charles James Fox was born at 9 Conduit Street, Westminister, London, January 24, 1749. He was the third son of courageous and corrupt Henry Fox who enriched himself as Paymaster- General, quite possibly the most lucrative post in the British government.
Charles James Fox - Fox-North Coalition, Whig Politician, Statesman: Fox always had a liking for coalitions; on Feb. 14, 1783, he joined with his old enemy North to eject the new government and accomplished his object 10 days later. Defending an action that was undoubtedly unpopular and damaging to his reputation, Fox maintained that it was wise and candid to end the hostility between North ...
