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Charles James Fox (24 January – 13 September ), styled The Honourable from , was a British Whig politician and statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue. Charles James Charles James Fox (24 January – 13 September ) was a Whig MP and leader of the Opposition to William Pitt the Younger’ s Tory government. He was a close personal friend of George, Prince of Wales, later George IV, and of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire.
The Right Honourable Charles Charles James Fox was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years, during which he championed liberal causes such as the abolition of slavery, religious tolerance, and reform of parliamentary representation.
Charles James Fox, styled The Charles James Fox, – , seems to have been a larger than life character. His father, who eloped with Lady Caroline Lennox, daughter of the Duke of Richmond was addicted to gambling but in spite of this amassed a large fortune as Paymaster General to the forces.
The curtain background and Charles James Fox was his father’s favourite child; caressed, adored, and spoilt; and treated as a man when he was little more than a boy. When only nineteen he was brought into Parliament for Midhurst by an arrangement between Lord Holland and Lord Montagu, patron of the borough.
Charles James Fox Combe. Birthdate: He made his name as a Parliamentary orator with a speech in supporting Colonel Luttrell (Wilkes’ opponent in Middlesex), and, after joining the government in as a Lord of the Admiralty, frequently spoke out in favour of measures to curb the press.
Fox experienced here the Family and Education. b. 24 Jan. , 2nd surv. s. of Henry Fox †, 1st Baron Holland, by Lady Georgiana Caroline Lennox (cr. Baroness Holland 3 May ), da. of Charles Lennox †, 2nd Duke of Richmond.
NH 64275 Charles James Fox Biography. Charles James Fox Combe () was the son of Harvey Christian Combe & his wife Alice Christian née Tree. His first marriage was to Henrietta Anna eldest daughter of John Church of Bedford Place, London, on Jan. 31st at St. George's Church, Bloomsbury, London.