Sir stephen fox biography

&#;FOX, Sir STEPHEN (–), statesman, born on 27 March , was the youngest son of William Fox of Farley, Wiltshire, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Pavey of Plaitford, in the same county.

A moderately active Member of this Parliament, he was named to seven committees, including those to examine the disbandment accounts, to recommend expunctions.

Family and Education.

Sir Stephen Fox (27 March – 28 October ) of Farley in Wiltshire, of Redlynch Park in Somerset, of Chiswick, Middlesex and of Whitehall, was.

Sir Stephen Fox of Farley in Wiltshire, of Redlynch Park in Somerset, of Chiswick, Middlesex and of Whitehall, was a royal administrator and courtier to King Charles II, and a politician, who rose from humble origins to become the "richest.

A scarce first edition biography on the life of Sir Stephen Fox, an important courtier of King Charles II. First Edition,Illustrated,Leather Binding,Scarce.

As a boy he is said to have been in the choir of Salisbury Cathedral. He also received a thorough and early drilling in the art of bookkeeping. At the age of fifteen his 'beauty of person and towardliness of disposition,' aided, it is probable, by a letter from an early patron, Brian Duppa [q.

v.], recommended him to the notice of the Earl of Northumberland, high admiral of England.

Biography of Stephen Fox including his birth, marriages, death and life events, life events of his siblings, and his ancestry to five generations.

Some five years later he passed into the household of the earl's brother, Lord Percy, under whom he had the supervision of the ordnance board during the campaign which ended with the battle of Worcester, 3 Sept. He then took an active part &#;in assisting the escape of Charles to Normandy.

When the prince was obliged to leave France in , Clarendon persuade