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Mrs Charles Fox

This person is the subject of ongoing research. We have started by researching their relationship to the enslavement of people.

Biographical notes

Katharine Fox (née Maberly).

Slavery connections

Her husband, Charles Richard Fox (1796–1873), was the illegitimate son of Henry Richard Vassal-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland, who was ‘awarded part of the compensation for under three awards for the enslaved people on his estates in Jamaica, which had come to him through his wife, Elizabeth Webster (née Vassall)’. (UCL Department of History, ‘Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland’, in UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership [online], London 2020, <https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/46368> accessed 29 July 2021.)

Abolition connections

No known connections with abolition.

National Gallery painting connections

Donor: presented in 1874: NG903.

Bibliography

History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
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C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://www.oxforddnb.com/
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J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
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