Caroline Fox was an English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 diarist. She was the daughter of Robert Were Fox

Robert Were Fox the Younger

Robert Were Fox FRS was a British geologist, natural philosopher and inventor. He is known mainly for his work on the temperature of the earth and his construction of a compass to measure magnetic dip at sea....

 FRS of the influential Fox family

Fox family of Falmouth

The Fox family of Falmouth, Cornwall, UK were very influential in the development of the town of Falmouth in the 19th century and of the Cornish Industrial Revolution...

 of Falmouth

Falmouth, Cornwall

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, and was the younger sister of both Barclay Fox

Barclay Fox

Robert Barclay Fox was a businessman, gardener and diarist, a member of the influential Quaker Fox family of Falmouth.-Family relationships:...

, also a diarist, and Anna Maria Fox

Anna Maria Fox

Anna Maria Fox was a promoter of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society and the artistic and cultural development of Falmouth in Cornwall, UK.-Family links:...

.

Caroline was well known as the authoress of a diary, recording memories of many distinguished people, such as John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill

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, John Sterling

John Sterling (author)

John Sterling , was a British author.He was born at Kames Castle on the Isle of Bute. He belonged to a family of Scottish origin which had settled in Ireland during the Cromwellian period...

 and Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle

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. Selections from her diary and correspondence (1835–1871) were published under the title of Memories of Old Friends: Caroline Fox of Penjerrick

Penjerrick Garden

Penjerrick Garden, often referred to as "Cornwall's true jungle garden", lies between Budock Water and Mawnan Smith, near Falmouth, United Kingdom....

, Cornwall (edited by H. N. Pym

Horace Pym

Horace Pym was a confidential solicitor, book collector and the editor of the best-selling private journal of the Quaker writer, Caroline Fox: Memories of Old Friends, published in 1881.-Name, birth and parentage:...

, 1881; 2nd edition, 1882). A selection from the Victorian edition was published in 1972.

She died on 12 January 1871 and was buried in the Quaker Burial Ground at Budock.