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Peerage of Great Britain
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. The first barony was created on 7 March 1762 for Lady Caroline Fox, the daughter of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond
The 2nd Duke of Richmond has been described as early cricket's greatest patron. Although he had played cricket as a boy, his real involvement began after he succeeded to the dukedom...
and the eldest of the famous Lennox sisters. The second barony was created on 17 April 1763 for her husband, the prominent Whig politician Henry Fox
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, of Foxley, MP, PC was a leading British politician of the 18th century. He identified primarily with the Whig faction...
. Lord and Lady Holland were both succeeded by their eldest son, the second Baron. He had previously represented Salisbury
Salisbury (UK Parliament constituency)
Salisbury is a county constituency centred on the city of Salisbury in Wiltshire. It elects one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, by the first past the post voting system....
in Parliament. On his early death in 1774 the titles passed to his only son, the third Baron. He was also an influential Whig politician and notably served as Lord Privy Seal
Lord Privy Seal
The Lord Privy Seal is the fifth of the Great Officers of State in the United Kingdom, ranking beneath the Lord President of the Council and above the Lord Great Chamberlain. The office is one of the traditional sinecure offices of state...
from 1806 to 1806 in the Ministry of All the Talents
Ministry of All the Talents
The Ministry of All the Talents was a national unity government formed by William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville on his appointment as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on 11 February 1806 after the death of William Pitt the Younger...
. He was succeeded by his eldest legitimate son, the fourth Baron. He sat as Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
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for Horsham
Horsham (UK Parliament constituency)
Horsham is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.- Boundaries :...
. He had four daughters but no sons and on his death in 1859 the titles became extinct.
The politician Charles James Fox
Charles James Fox
Charles James Fox PC , styled The Honourable from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned thirty-eight years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and who was particularly noted for being the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger...
was the second son of the first Baroness and first Baron. Charles Richard Fox
Charles Richard Fox
General Charles Richard Fox was a British army general, and later a politician.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.After some service in the Royal Navy, Fox entered...
, illegitimate son of the third Baron by his mistress and future wife, Lady Webster
Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland
Elizabeth Vassall Fox, Baroness Holland was an English political hostess and the wife of Whig politician Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland...
. The first Baron Holland of Foxley was the second and youngest son from the second marriage of the politician Sir Stephen Fox
Stephen Fox
Sir Stephen Fox was an English politician.-Life:Stephen Fox was the son of William Fox, of Farley, in Wiltshire, a yeoman farmer...
, and the younger brother of Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester
Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester
Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester PC was a British peer and Member of Parliament.Ilchester was the son of Sir Stephen Fox and his second wife Christiana Hope. Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, was his younger brother and Charles James Fox his nephew...
. The latter title was created with remainder to Henry Fox and the heirs male of his body.
Barons Holland, of Holland (1762)
- Georgiana Caroline Fox, 1st Baroness HollandLady Caroline LennoxGeorgiana Caroline Fox, 1st Baroness Holland, of Holland , known as Lady Caroline Lennox before 1744 and as Lady Caroline Fox from 1744 to 1762, was the eldest of the Lennox Sisters, immortalised in Stella Tillyard's book Aristocrats, and the television series based on it.The Lennox sisters were...
(1723–1774) - Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron HollandStephen Fox, 2nd Baron HollandStephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland, of Holland, 2nd Baron Holland, of Foxley, MP was briefly a British peer....
(1747–1774) - Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron HollandHenry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron HollandHenry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland PC was an English politician and a major figure in Whig politics in the early 19th century...
(1773–1840) - Henry Edward Fox, 4th Baron HollandHenry Fox, 4th Baron HollandHenry Edward Fox, 4th Baron Holland, of Holland, 4th Baron Holland, of Foxley, MP was briefly a British Whig politician and later an ambassador....
(1802–1859)
Barons Holland, of Foxley (1763)
- Henry Fox, 1st Baron HollandHenry Fox, 1st Baron HollandHenry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, of Foxley, MP, PC was a leading British politician of the 18th century. He identified primarily with the Whig faction...
(1705–1774) - Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron HollandStephen Fox, 2nd Baron HollandStephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland, of Holland, 2nd Baron Holland, of Foxley, MP was briefly a British peer....
(1747–1774) - Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron HollandHenry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron HollandHenry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland PC was an English politician and a major figure in Whig politics in the early 19th century...
(1773–1840) - Henry Edward Fox, 4th Baron HollandHenry Fox, 4th Baron HollandHenry Edward Fox, 4th Baron Holland, of Holland, 4th Baron Holland, of Foxley, MP was briefly a British Whig politician and later an ambassador....
(1802–1859)