People, Places, Enterprises & Miscellany pertaining to the Fox family

Linden, Wellington – A Fox home

source: “More than two Hundred Years … Linden, originally the home of some of the were family, was where the bachelor Sylvanus (“never very good at business but a conscientious public servant”) lived with his spinster sisters until his death aged 83 in 1905.  Lloyd was the 1st cousin 2x removed of Sylvanus Fox.   […]

Mountain Hero Remembered

source: Bristol PostThe village of Frenchay has remembered a former villager, Francis Fox Tuckett FRGS, who died 100 years ago, by unveiling a blue plaque on his life-long home, The Old House. It was performed by Tim Bowles, chairman of Winterbourne Parish Council, who sponsored the plaque. Francis Fox Tuckett was of one of the […]

Tuckett, Francis Fox (1834-1913) – First ascent of the Aletschhorn in the Swiss Alps

Francis Fox Tuckett m. Alice Fox (1858-1928) Lloyd was the 3rd cousin 2x removed  of Francis Fox Tuckett and the 2nd cousin 1x removed of  Alice Fox see also Mountain Hero Remembered source: wikipediaFrancis Fox Tuckett FRGS (10 February 1834 – 20 June 1913) was an English mountaineer. He was vice-president of the Alpine Club from […]

George Croker Fox (1727-1781) – established G C Fox & Co of Falmouth

George Croker Fox m. Mary Were (1728-1796) Lloyd H Fox was the half 3rd great grand nephew of George Fox and also the 3rd great grand nephew of Mary Were 8 Arwenack St.Pair of town houses, now an office. c1770s, built for George Croker Fox  source: Grace’s Guide G. C. Fox (Shipping Brokers) was a major shipping […]

Sir Edmund Backhouse (1873-1944) – oriental scholar, with some fabrication?

Lloyd H Fox was the 4th cousin of Edmund Backhouse. source: wikipediaSir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, 2nd Baronet (20 October 1873 – 8 January 1944) was a British oriental scholar, Sinologist, and linguist whose work exerted a powerful influence on the Western view of the last decades of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912). Since his death, however, it has […]

Charles Lloyd lll (1662-1748)

Charles Lloyd m. Sarah Crowley (1675-1743)Lloyd H Fox was the 5th great grandnephew of Charles Lloyd lll and also the 5th great grandnephew of Sarak Crowley source: Dictionary of Welsh BiographyCHARLES LLOYD ( III ) m. Sarah , daughter of Ambrose Crowley , in 1693 . He further enlarged the house at Dolobran , and established […]

Charles Lloyd ll (1637-1698) – imprisoned for his beliefs

Charles Lloyd (ll) m. Elizabeth Lort (?-1685) Lloyd H Fox was the 6th great grandson of Charles Lloyd & Elizabeth Lort source: Quakers in the World The Lloyd family can trace its history back to the days of the early Quakers in the 17th Century, and two brothers, Charles and Thomas, of Dolobran in Montgomeryshire, Wales. […]

Charles Lloyd l (1613-1657)

Charles Lloyd (l)  m. Elizabeth Stanley  (?-?) Lloyd H Fox was the 7th great grandson of Charles Lloyd & Elizabeth Stanley

Lloyd, Thomas (1640-1694) – deputy governor of Pennsylvania

Thomas Lloyd m. Mary Jones (?-?) Lloyd H Fox was the 6th great grand nephew of Thomas Lloyd Thomas Lloyd became a Quaker in 1664 and was soon also ( with his brother Charles ll) imprisoned at Welshpool prison until he was also released in 1672.  In 1683 he decided to take his family to Pennsylvania, […]