IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0113 MS-FOXH
Held at: Royal College of Physicians
Title: FOX, Henry Richard Vassall, 3rd Baron Holland
Date(s): 1806-1819
Level of description: Collection
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 AND 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
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Provenance of the Collection is unknown
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2008