Hon. Charles James Fox (24 January, 1749 - 13 September, 1806) was a prominent British Whig politician. He is noted as an anti-slavery campaigner, a supporter of American independence from Britain, and as a supporter of the French Revolution. He held several senior government offices, including being Britain's first Foreign Secretary. Fox was the third son of Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, one of the older generation of self-aggrandizing Whigs. Wikipedia
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Back in 1956, the Guardian's editor AP Wadsworth commissioned AJP Taylor to write a tribute to Charles James Fox on the 150th anniversary of the great statesman's death. politics.guardian.co.uk/columnist/story/0,,1754429,00.html