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Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland of Holland and 2nd Baron Holland of Foxley (20 February 1745 – 26 December 1774) of Holland House in Kensington, Middlesex, was a British peer. Biography. Lord Holland was the eldest son of Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland of Foxley (1705–1774) of Holland House and his wife Lady Caroline Lennox (1723 ...
The first Baron Holland of Foxley was the second and youngest son from the second marriage of the politician Sir Stephen Fox, and the younger brother of Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester, whose title was created with remainder to Henry Fox failing any heirs male of his body.
Stephen Fox was the favourite child of his mother, as Charles James was of his father; he had most of his brother’s faults but little of his ability. ‘I fear, let his future fortune be ever so great,’ wrote his tutor George Macartney to Holland on 16 Dec. 1762, 1 ‘he will always be distressed in his circumstances.’
Sep 3, 2012 · Charles' elder brother Stephen (1745-1774) became the 2nd Baron Holland, and a younger brother, Henry Edward (1755-1811) was in the army. Henry Vassal Fox, 3rd Baron Holland.
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Stephen Fox was a younger son of William Fox, of Farley, Wiltshire, a yeoman farmer, by his wife Margaret Pavy, a daughter of Thomas Pavy of Plaitford, Hampshire. His eldest surviving brother was John Fox (1611–1691), Clerk of the Acatry to King Charles II. Stephen's sister was Jane Fox (1639–1710), who married Nicholas Johnson (died 1682), who was...
Stephen was a Chorister of Salisbury Cathedral in Wiltshire (c. 1634 – c. 1640) and was mentioned in John Evelyn's Diary as a poore boy from the quire of Salisbury. His elder brother John Fox had obtained a position in the royal court on the recommendation of the Dean of Salisbury Cathedral, and first introduced his younger brother Stephen to the r...
Fox married twice: 1. Firstly on 8 December 1651, at the age of 24, to Elizabeth Whittle (died 11 August 1696), a daughter of William Whittle of the City of London, whose mural monument with bust survives in the Ilchester Chapel of Farley Church. His niece Margaret Fox (buried on 22 June 1729), a daughter of his elder brother John, also married a m...
Fox had the following residences and estates: 1. Farley, Wiltshire, his paternal estate and burial place. 2. The manor of Plaitford, Hampshire, purchased in 1679 from its lord, Richard Compton, which remained a possession of his descendants until 1911 when it was sold to its tenants by Giles Fox-Strangways, 6th Earl of Ilchester. 1. Chiswick, Middl...
Fox constructed further buildings including: 1. All Saints Church, Farley, 1688–1690, to the design of Sir Christopher Wren, probably with Alexander Fort, Joiner to His Majesty's Office of Works. He obtained a private Act of Parliament to make it into a parish church, as it replaced a mere chapel of ease to the adjoining parish of Alderbury. 2. Fox...
Fox died on 28 October 1716, aged 89, at his house in Chiswick. He was buried in the Church he rebuilt at Farley, where survives his mural monument. He left assets with an estimated value of over £174,000.
Ferris, John. P., biography of "Fox, Stephen (1627–1716), of Farley, Wilts. and Whitehall", published in History of Parliament, House of Commons 1660–1690, ed. B.D. Henning, 1983Hayton, D. W., biography of "Fox, Sir Stephen (1627–1716), of Whitehall, Westminster; Chiswick, Mdx.; and Redlynch, Som", published in History of Parliament: House of Commons 1690–1715, ed. D. Hayt...Clay, Christopher, Public Finance and Private Wealth: The Career of Sir Stephen Fox, 1627–1716, Oxford, 1978.Jeffery, Sally, The Flower of all the Private Gentlemens' Palaces in England: Sir Stephen Fox's "Extraordinary Fine" Garden at Chiswick, published in Garden History, Vol.32, 2004Sir Egerton Brydges, Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical(1812) pp. 529–538
Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland primary name: Fox, Stephen other name: (2nd Baron) Holland
Fox, Stephen, (1745-1774), 2nd Baron Holland This page summarises records created by this Person The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually...
