Charles James Fox

Charles James Fox

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Kingdom of Great Britain
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Charles James Fox, styled The Honourable from 1762, was an English Whig politician and 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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1749 – 1806
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Born in
Westminster
Educated at
Hertford CollegeEton College

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  • 1749

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  • 1806

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