Caroline Fox (1819-1871) – diarist
Lloyd H Fox was the 3rd cousin 2x removed of Caroline Fox Caroline Fox (24 May 1819 – 12 January 1871) was an English diarist. She was the daughter of Robert Were Fox FRS of the influential Fox family of Falmouth and his wife, Maria Barclay. She was the younger sister of both Barclay Fox, also […]
Edmund Backhouse (1824-?) MP, of Trebah
Edmund Backhouse m. Juliet Fox (1828-?) Lloyd H Fox was the 2nd cousin 2x removed of Edmund Backhouse and the 3rd cousin 2x removed of Juliet Fox source: wikipediaEdmund Backhouse (1824 – 7 June 1906), banker, J.P. on the County Durham and for the North Riding of Yorkshire benches. He was Member of Parliament for Darlington. […]
Sir Thomas Hanbury (1832-1907) – created La Mortola
Thomas Hanbury m Katherine Pease (1842-1920) Griselda Bigland was the grand niece of Thomas HanburyLloyd was the 3rd cousin 1x removed of Katherine Pease source: wikipediaSir Thomas Hanbury (21 June 1832 – 9 March 1907) was an English businessman, gardener and philanthropist. He built the Giardini Botanici Hanbury, or Hanbury Botanical Gardens, at Mortola, between Ventimiglia […]
Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) – architect – designed Natural History Museum
Alfred m. Elizabeth Hodgkin (1834-1918) Lloyd H Fox was the 1st cousin 2x removed of Elizabeth Hodgkin source: wikipedia Alfred Waterhouse (19 July 1830 – 22 August 1905) was a British architect, particularly associated with the Victorian Gothic Revival architecture. He is perhaps best known for his design for Manchester Town Hall and the Natural History […]
(Curwen) Eliot Hodgkin, (1905-1987) – Still Life Painter
Lloyd H Fox was the 3rd cousin of Eliot Hodgkin source: wikipedia Eliot Hodgkin (19 June 1905–30 May 1987) was an English painter, born in Purley Lodge, Purley-on-Thames near Pangbourne, Berkshire. Although he began with oil painting, most of his finest works were in tempera, specializing in highly detailed still lifes. Early lifeCurwen Eliot Hodgkin was […]
Harry Fox (1856-1888) – lost in the Caucasus Mountains
Lloyd H Fox was the 2nd cousin 1x removed of Harry Fox Mount Fox in the Canadian Selkirk range is named in hos honour. source: wikipedia Henry “Harry” Fox (30 September 1856 – on or after 30 August 1888) was an English gentleman who was a sportsman and adventurer. He played cricket and rugby for […]
Francis Fox (1647-1704)
Francis m. Tabitha Croker (?-1730)Francis was the son of Francis Fox (?-1670) Lloyd H Fox was the 5th great grandson of Francis Fox From Burke 1838 Francis Fox, of St. Germans, who m. first, in 1671, Joan, daughter of Richard Smith, of Plymouth, gentleman, by whom he had three sons, who all d. young, and […]
Francis Fox (1606-1670) – the first Fox record
Francis Fox m. Dorothy Kekewich (?-?) Lloyd H Fox was the 6th great grandson of Francis Fox source: A revised genealogical account of the various families descended from Francis Fox of St. Germain’s Cornwall Burke, in “History of the Commoners” states “that the numerous families of Fox at present residing in the West of England sprang from one […]
Candy & Co – a Fox enterprise
source:Grace’s guide Like many potteries, Candy and Co Ltd, of Newton Abbot, in Devon, were best known as tile manufacturers. In their early years, Candy and Co were also famous for their extremely hard ornamental bricks – they won several large contracts for both bricks, which were used by the government in dock construction, and […]
William Bliss
source: Chipping Norton Tourist Information Until not too long ago ‘Chippy’, apart from being a small market town, had a real industrial base in wool and tweed production. Just outside the town stands Bliss Tweed Mill, designed by George Woodhouse, it looks like a cross between a mansion and a folly, rather than a late […]