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CHARLES JAMES FOX (1749-1806)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 762 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES JAMES FOX (1749-1806)  ,
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British statesman and orator, was the third son of Henry Fox, 1st Lord Holland, and his wife, Lady Caroline Lennox, eldest daughter of Charles Lennox, 2nd duke of Richmond . He was born at 9 Conduit Street, Westminster, on the 24th of
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January 1749 . The
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father, who treated his children with extreme indulgence, allowed him to choose his school, and he elected to go to one kept at Wands-worth by a French refugee, named Pampelonne . In a very short time he asked to be sent to
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Eton, where he went in 1757 . At Eton he did no more
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work than was acceptable to him, but he had an inborn love of literature, and he laid the foundation of that knowledge of the classic
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languages which in after years was the delight of his
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life . The vehemence of his temper was
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con-trolled by an affectionate disposition . When quite a boy he checked his own tendency to fits of passion on learning that his father trusted him to cure his defects . That he learnt anything, and that he grew up an amiable and magnanimous man, were solely due to his natural worth, for no one ever owed less to
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education or to
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family example . The relations of Lord Holland to his sons would be difficult to parallel . He not only treated them, and in particular Charles, as friends and companions in pleasure from the first, but he did his best to encourage them in dissipation . In 1763 he took Charles for a tour on the continent, introduced him to the most immoral society of the time and gave him
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money with which to gamble . The boy came back to Eton a precocious rake .

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good fortune that he did go back, for he was subjected to a wholesome course of ridicule by the other boys, and was flogged by Dr Barnard, the headmaster . In 1764 Charles proceeded to Hertford College, Oxford . At Oxford, as at Eton, he read literature from natural liking, and he paid some attention to mathematics .

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