Arthur Aloysius Fox (22 October 1847 – 11 April 1901) was a landowner and politician in the colony of South Australia. He was the only son of Rundle Street auctioneer Arthur Fox (c. 1814 – 1 May 1853) and his wife Frances Ellen Fox née Nihill (c. 1826 – 25 May 1895), who established the property "Marybank" near Athelstone (also mentioned in connection with

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), profited handsomely from shares in the

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and Burra copper mines, and died from accidental drowning. Frances Ellen's sister Mary Nihill (c. 1811–1893) married Daniel Michael Paul Cudmore (1811–1891) around 1835. He was Secretary of the Athelstone Institute, and prominent in organising the erection of the Institute building. He was a man of some means, and owned property adjacent to the town of

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He was elected as a Protectionist candidate (and received much support from fellow Catholics) to the seat of West Adelaide in the

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and sat from April 1884 to March 1887, with

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as his colleague. He was unsuccessful at the following election. He was appointed Justice of the Peace around 1885, but seldom sat on the Bench. He married Winifred Phillips of "Redlands", St. Leonards, New South Wales, on 31 May 1893. Winifred was a friend of Sister

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. He died at his residence, "Marybank", and was buried in the Catholic section of the

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Arthur Fox, Sr. (c. 1814 – 1 May 1853) was married to Frances Ellen "Fanny" Fox, née Nihill, (c. 1826 – 25 May 1895); their children included: *Arthur Aloysius Fox (22 October 1847 – 11 April 1901) married Winifred Anne Phillips (c. 1861 – 8 January 1950) on 31 May 1893 :*(Arthur) Gerard Fox (26 December 1894 – ) with

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and

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;

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in Germany. Married in 1919. :*(Helen) Dymphna Fox (13 June 1896 – 1964) married Cyril Thomas McKenna ( –1980) on 24 December 1922. She divorced him in 1951. *eldest daughter Mary Dymphna Fox (c. 1852Clearly there is a discrepancy in dates; clarification would be welcomed. – 11 October 1892) married Richard John Rigaud ( – 26 March 1906) on 25 May 1868 *second daughter Sarah Theresa Fox (c. 1851 – 16 July 1939) married Francis Joseph Makinson on 19 September 1876 *youngest daughter Margaret Frances Christina Fox (c. 1857 – 1927) married T. Henry Massey Makinson (23 February 1840 – 22 May 1913) on 14 February 1878.

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