{{Short description|British Army general}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}} {{Use British English|date=March 2012}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = General | name = Charles Richard Fox | image = | alt = | caption = | office1 = Surveyor-General of the Ordnance | term1 = 1832–1834<br/>1841<br/>1846-1852 | office2 = Member of Parliament for Tower Hamlets | term2 = 1841–1847 | office3 = Member of Parliament for Stroud | term3 = 1835 | office4 = Member of Parliament for Tavistock | term4 = 1832–1835 | office5 = Member of Parliament for Calne | term5 = 1831–1832 | party = Whig | birth_date = {{birth date|1796|11|06|df=yes}} | birth_place= | death_date = {{death date and age|1873|04|13|1796|11|06|df=yes}} | death_place= | father = Henry Vassall-Fox | mother = Elizabeth Vassall | relatives = Henry Fox (brother) | spouse = {{marriage|Mary FitzClarence|1824}} | module = {{Infobox military person | embed = yes | rank = General | branch = British Army | branch_label = Service | unit = Grenadiers | commands = 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot }}}} General '''Charles Richard Fox''' (6 November 1796 – 13 April 1873) was a British army general, and later a politician.
==Background== thumb|right|200px|Funerary monument, Kensal Green Cemetery, London Fox was born at Brompton, the illegitimate son of Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland, through a liaison with Lady Webster, whom Lord Holland would later marry.
==Career== After some service in the Royal Navy, Fox entered the Grenadiers, and was known in later life as a collector of Greek coins. His collection was bought for the royal museum of Berlin when he died in 1873. He was present around the time of Napoleon's incarceration on St Helena and subsequently removed a key to the bedroom where Napoleon was lodged. This was given to his mother - Lady Holland - due to her Napoleonphile attitudes and auctioned in 2021.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> |title= Key to room where Napoleon died found in Scotland |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-55618318 |access-date=2021-01-11}}</ref> He married in St. George's, Hanover Square, London, on 19 June 1824 Lady Mary FitzClarence, a daughter of William IV by his mistress Dorothy Jordan. The couple had no issue.
Fox was also a politician. He represented the Whig interest and sat for Calne 1831–32, then Tavistock 1832–35. He briefly represented Stroud in 1835, but resigned that seat so Lord John Russell could contest it. He was elected as a Member of Parliament for the east London constituency of Tower Hamlets in 1841 and served until 1847.
Fox was Surveyor-General of the Ordnance in 1841 and 1846–52. He was promoted Major-General on 9 November 1846,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=20660 |date=10 November 1846 |page=3989 |supp=y}}</ref> Lieutenant-General on 20 June 1854,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=21564 |date=22 June 1854 |page=1932 |nolink=yes}}</ref> and General on 6 March 1863.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=22714 |date=6 March 1863 |page=1357 |nolink=yes}}</ref>
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===Bibliography=== * ''British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885'', compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1977) * ''The Parliaments of England'' by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844–50), second edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973) * ''Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume I 1832–1885'', edited by M. Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976)
== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | general-charles-fox | Charles Richard Fox }} * [https://archives.parliament.uk/collections/getrecord/GB61_FOX UK Parliamentary Archives, Letters from Charles Richard Fox to Lord John Russell]
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