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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. Fox was educated at Eton and Hertford College, Oxford.
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.
4 de jun. de 1992 · Abstract. Fox resumed political life in 1801, but on terms. His interest in politics was at best part-time. Between 1801 and 1806, only twenty-two performances are recorded in the collected edition of his speeches. Letters to friends continue to address themselves to literary and agricultural topics as well as the continuing iniquities of Pitt.
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
Charles James Fox (1749-1806) was a Whig statesman, orator and friend of George, Prince of Wales. His parliamentary career spanned 38 years; he was Britain’s first Foreign Secretary, and a prominent opponent of George III and William Pitt the Younger. He spent almost all his political career in opposition, campaigned for the abolition of slavery, supported the French Revolution, and ...
31. Charles James Fox believed that the King's illness was permanent, and therefore that George III was, constitutionally speaking, dead. 32. Charles James Fox welcomed the French Revolution of 1789, interpreting it as a late Continental imitation of Britain's Glorious Revolution of 1688. 33.
4 de jun. de 1992 · Abstract. The constitutional crisis of 1782–4 was the determining experience in Fox's political career. It would become the terms of reference against which future decisions were taken. Fox was personally shaken, and indeed hurt, by the events of these years. Throughout them, he had endlessly to respond to unforeseen events.
