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Charles Fox (Paymaster)
Charles or Charlie Fox may refer to: Politicians *Charles James Fox (1749–1806), British politician *Charles Fox (1660–1713), British politician, Paymaster of the Forces *Charles N. Fox (1829–1903), California Supreme Court Justice *Charles Fox (socialist activist) (1861–1939), British socialist activist and dentist *Charles L. Fox (1854–1927), American artist, philanthropist and socialist from Maine Engineers *Charles Douglas Fox (1840–1921), British civil engineer *Charles Fox (engineer, born 1810) (1810–1874), British civil and railway engineer, built the Crystal Palace Sports *Charlie Fox (baseball) (Charles Francis Fox, 1921–2004), American baseball manager, scout, coach, and athlete *Chas Fox (born 1963), American football player *Charles Fox (cricketer) (1858–1901), English cricketer *Charlie Fox (footballer) (born 1998), English footballer *Charlie Fox (rugby union) (1898–1984), Australian rugby union player *Charles Fox (swimmer) (born 1948), Zambian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles James Fox
Charles James Fox (24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806), styled ''The Honourable'' from 1762, was a British British Whig Party, Whig politician and statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the rival, arch-rival of the Tories (British political party), 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 ("Pitt the Elder"). Fox rose to prominence in the House of Commons of Great Britain, House of Commons as a forceful and eloquent speaker with a notorious and colourful private life, though at that time with rather conservative and conventional opinions. However, with the coming of the American War of Independence and the influence of the Whig Edmund Burke, Fox's opinions evolved into some of the most Classical radicalism, radical to be aired in the British Parliament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
