Sir Gifford Wheaton Grey Fox, 2nd Baronet (2 February 1903 – 11 February 1959) was a British

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 politician

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. He served as a Conservative

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 Member of Parliament

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 (MP) from 1932 to 1950.

Gifford Fox succeeded his father, Gilbert Fox, as a baronet

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, of Liverpool

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, Lancashire

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 on 21 February 1925. The baronetcy had been created on 30 January 1924. His first marriage took place on 20 October 1927 to The Honourable Myra Newton, daughter of George Newton, 1st Baron Eltisley

George Newton, 1st Baron Eltisley

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. They divorce

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d in 1952. His second wife was Maryoth Hay, the paternal granddaughter of the 10th Marquess of Tweeddale, whom he married on 2 March 1954.

Fox was first elected to Parliament on 25 February 1932 in a by-election

Henley by-election, 1932

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 in the Oxfordshire

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 constituency of Henley

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. The by-election had been caused by the death on 16 January 1932 of Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson (British politician)

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. Fox remained Henley's MP until the 1950 general election

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Fox died in 1959, aged 56, and the baronetcy became extinct.