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Charles James Fox was born on 24 January 1749 and was the third son of Henry Fox, first Lord Holland and his wife Lady Caroline Lennox, daughter of the second Duke of Richmond. This made Fox the nephew of the third Duke of Richmond, a leading Rockingham Whig peer.
Abstract. The feverish politics of 1782–4 ended, for Fox, in public and sensational defeat. Their impact and influence cast long shadows, and for Fox they were a formative experience. Defeat reinforced in Fox all those inclinations to abandon politics that had always been part of his personality.
4 de jun. de 1992 · After the end of the American War in 1783, London was faced by an ‘inundation’ of French visitors. 13 After 1789, the tide flowed the other way, carrying innumerable Foxites to Paris to join in the excitement of the Revolution. Fox himself thought seriously of going over.
Charles James Fox. (1749-1806), Whig statesman. Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue Entry. Sitter associated with 313 portraits. Charles James Fox led the Whig political party and was close friend of George, Prince of Wales. Reckless in politics as at the gaming tables, Fox held office briefly as a Tory under Lord North but soon switched sides ...
344 CHARLES JAMES FOX AND THE PEOPLE to its ruin, he possesses that scorn of Power, ill-gotten and ill-employed, that philosophic dignity of mind, that grandeur of consistency, which his inferior Rival never could attain. Wyvill claimed that the suspicion with which the radicals tended to regard
Hace 1 día · Charles James Fox entered the House of Commons in 1768, while still under age. He made his mark at once as a debater; by his early thirties he was one of the leading personalities in the House, and he remained a member of it for over thirty-seven years, till his death in 1806. Yet his ministerial career is counted in months only, rather than in ...
Charles James Fox, född 24 januari 1749 i Westminster i London, död 13 september 1806 i Chiswick i London, var en brittisk statsman, son till lord Holland och genom sin mor, lady Caroline Lennox ättling till kung Karl II.
