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Hace 6 días · Search for: 'Charles James Fox' in Oxford Reference ». (1749–1806).Educated at Eton and Oxford, Fox entered the House of Commons while still under age in 1768. He held minor office under North but fell foul of the king over the Royal Marriages Act. Once in opposition Fox was drawn to alliance with the Rockinghamite Whigs.
4 de jun. de 1992 · Charles James Fox was one of the most colourful figures in 18th-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. As the political rival of Pitt the Younger and the intellectual rival of Edmund Burke, his views ...
Holland’s death in July 1774 was followed six months later by that of his eldest son, when Fox inherited the sinecure of clerk of the pells in Ireland which he exchanged for a pension of £1700 per annum for thirty-one years.8 ‘I was told today’, wrote James Harris on 28 Nov. 1775,9 ‘that Charles Fox was not worth a farthing, and [had ...
Edward, Lascelles, The life of Charles James Fox (Oxford 1936)Google Scholar, seems to make no mention of the Hanoverian crisis; John, W. Derry, Charles James Fox (London, 1972)Google Scholar, contains no discussion of Hanover and Prussia in 1806 though it does draw attention to improved relations between George III and Fox; Leslie, Mitchell ...
Charles James Fox was born in London on 24 January 1749. His family was firmly placed within the political establishment, with his mother being the great-granddaughter of Charles II and his father having faithfully served Walpole for many years. From his early years, Fox mixed both a willingness and aptitude for hard work with periods of ...
FOX, Hon. Charles James (1749-1806), of St. Anne's Hill, Chertsey, Surr. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 , ed. R. Thorne, 1986 Available from Boydell and Brewer
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
