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Charles James Fox (24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a British Whig politician and statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
9 wrz 2024 · Charles James Fox was Britain’s first foreign secretary (1782, 1783, 1806), a famous champion of liberty, whose career, on the face of it, was nevertheless one of almost unrelieved failure. He conducted against King George III a long and brilliant vendetta; for this reason he was almost always in.
He at once proceeded to Paris with his entourage, ostensibly to gather materials for the history of the reign of James II which he had begun writing during his secession, but as England’s leading francophile he was inevitably greeted by Buonaparte with a flowery speech which provoked adverse comment in England.
Charles James Fox. Foreign Secretary March to July 1782, April to December 1783 and February to September 1806. Fox was a gambling addict, womaniser, debtor, and dandy who was forgiven his ...
Charles James Fox was his father’s favourite child; caressed, adored, and spoilt; and treated as a man when he was little more than a boy. When only nineteen he was brought into Parliament for Midhurst by an arrangement between Lord Holland and Lord Montagu, patron of the borough.
Fox’s views on the supremacy of Parliament, which had previously led him to oppose Wilkes’ and the rights of the press, now led him – in the context of the American War of Independence – increasingly to criticise the King’s actions and to call for greater powers for Parliament.
24 kwi 2024 · Charles James Fox was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years, during which he championed liberal causes such as the abolition of slavery, religious tolerance, and reform of parliamentary representation.
