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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 ...
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 (en dotter till hertigen av Richmond) ättling (sonsons dotterson) till kung Karl II. Han var också kusin med societs skönheten Georgiana Cavendish .
Much-loved in his lifetime, Fox was deified almost immediately after his death. A cult of Fox was developed that, in its depth and variety, represents an important aspect of Whig party history in the early nineteenth century. 1 Close Indeed, until the 1830s, Foxite and Whig were interchangeable terms.
8 de jun. de 2008 · Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Statesmen -- Great Britain -- Biography, Statesmen, Great Britain -- History -- 18th century, Great Britain, Great Britain -- History -- 1700-1799 (18th century) Publisher New York : Harper & Bros. Collection europeanlibraries Book from the collections of Oxford University
18 de jun. de 2009 · The speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of Commons .. by Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806; Wright, J. (John), 1770?-1844, ed.
Charles James Fox (24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a British Whig politician and 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 ...
Hace 3 días · 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 ...
