Charles James Fox
British Whig statesman (1749-1806) · United Kingdom · Politicians · Died at 57
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Something wrong?Charles James Fox, styled The Honourable from 1762, was a British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Canting arms of Fox, Baron Holland: Ermine, on a chevron azure three fox's heads and necks erased or on a canton of the second a fleur-de-lys of the third![Mezzotint, Ladies Sarah Lennox and Susan Strangeways, with Charles James Fox (1762) at Holland House; after the original by Sir Joshua Reynolds, British Museum. Fox stands beside his first cousin Lady Susan Fox-Strangways (1743-1827), who holds a pigeon, whilst his aunt Lady Sarah Lennox (1745-1826) (his mother's youngest sister) leans out of a window above. In 1760, whilst at Eton College, Fox had developed a schoolboy crush on Susan and composed a prize-winning Latin verse describing a pigeon he found to deliver his love-letters to her "to please both Venus its mistress and him".[6]](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/CharlesJamesFox_ByJoshuaReynolds.png/500px-CharlesJamesFox_ByJoshuaReynolds.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Mezzotint, Ladies Sarah Lennox and Susan Strangeways, with Charles James Fox (1762) at Holland House; after the original by Sir Joshua Reynolds, British Museum. Fox stands beside his first cousin Lady Susan Fox-Strangways (1743-1827), who holds a pigeon, whilst his aunt Lady Sarah Lennox (1745-1826) (his mother's youngest sister) leans out of a window above. In 1760, whilst at Eton College, Fox had developed a schoolboy crush on Susan and composed a prize-winning Latin verse describing a pigeon he found to deliver his love-letters to her "to please both Venus its mistress and him".[6]
Charles James Fox (1782) by Joshua Reynolds
1792 Portrait of Pitt the Younger, attributed to Gainsborough Dupont
Pitt facing Fox in Anton Hickel's The House of Commons, 1793-94
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Charles James Fox, styled The Honourable from 1762, was a British Whig 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 Whig of his day, had similarly been the great rival of Pitt's famous father, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham.
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