FOX, Henry Richard Vassall, 3rd Baron Holland

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0113 MS-FOXH
Held at	: Royal College of Physicians   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/archive-and-historical-library-collections ›
Full title	: FOX, Henry Richard Vassall, 3rd Baron Holland
Date(s)	: 1806-1819
Level of description	: fonds
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	: Fox | Henry Richard Vassall | 1773-1840 | 3rd Baron Holland

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1773. British politician, nephew of Charles James Fox. He was a member of the Whig opposition party from 1797 and served as Lord Privy Seal in the coalition ministry of 1806-1807. An opponent of the Act of Union with Ireland (1801), he continually advocated its repeal, at the same time working for Catholic Emancipation. Although a loyal and active member he was never personally powerful in the Whig party. When the Whigs returned to power, he served as the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1830-1834, 1835-1840). Lord Holland is, perhaps, best known for his influence on literature, politics, and letters through the hospitality that Holland House in London provided for the brilliant and distinguished people of his day. Holland died in 1840, his son, the 4th baron, edited Holland's Foreign Reminiscences (1850) and Memoirs of the Whig Party (1852).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Letters relating to illness and death of Charles James Fox and other members of the Fox Family, 1806-1819.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Unknown

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

All requests should be referred to the Archivist.

Finding aids:

Available at the Royal College of Physicians.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Provenance of the Collection is unknown

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Aug 2008