Holland, Henry Fox, 1st Baron
- Holland, Henry Fox, 1st Baron
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▪ British politician
born September 28, 1705
died July 1, 1774, Kensington, near London
English politician, notable chiefly for the success with which he exploited public office for private gain.
The second son of Sir Stephen Fox, he inherited a large share of the riches that his father had accumulated but squandered it. He contracted a wealthy marriage which enabled him to enter Parliament in 1735, where he became the favourite pupil and devoted supporter of Sir Robert Walpole. He was surveyor general of works from 1737 to 1742, lord of the Treasury in 1743, secretary at war and member of the privy council in 1746, and leader of the House of Commons and secretary of state under the Duke of Newcastle in 1755.
During the Seven Years' War, Fox devoted himself mainly to accumulating a vast fortune. He again became leader of the House of Commons, with a seat in the Cabinet, under the Earl of Bute in 1762 and exercised his skill in cajolery and corruption to induce the House of Commons to countenance the Treaty of Paris of 1763; as a recompense, he was raised to the House of Lords with the title of Baron Holland of Foxley, Wiltshire.
In 1769 a petition of the livery of the City of London against the ministers referred to him as “the public defaulter of unaccounted millions.” The proceedings brought against him in the Court of Exchequer were stayed by a royal warrant, and he justified the delays by appealing to custom. One of his four sons was the Whig leader Charles James Fox.
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