Charles James Fox
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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- Westminster
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- Hertford CollegeEton College
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"There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited ."
"There appears to me to be no device at present but between an absolute surrender of the liberties of the People and a vigorous exertion...My view of things is I own very gloomy, and I am convinced tha…"
"Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right."
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1749
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Birth1806
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