Edward Long Fox (1832 – 28 March 1902) was an English physician. Fox was the eldest son of Dr. Francis Ker Fox and the grandson of Edward Long Fox (1761–1835) another prominent physician.Redwood, U.M. (1989) ''A family of Quaker doctors'' photocopied electric typewriter text. Copy at the

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, Reduth. He graduated from

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, where he started a long-term friendship with Henry Acland. In 1854 he moved to London, where he studied and worked at the College of Chemistry and

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, graduating as M.B. in 1857 and M.D. in 1861. He then returned to Bristol, where for 20 years he was a physician to the

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. In parallel, he taught medicine and pathological anatomy at the Bristol medical school and

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. He was also examiner in medicine at the

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and wrote several articles for the Quain's ''Dictionary of Medicine''. In 1894, he was elected as president of the

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. Fox died in Bristol in 1902 due to a long illness. He was survived by one son and several daughters. The annual Long Fox lecture at

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, was established in his honour.List of Long Fox lectures 1985 - 2005
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Edward Long Fox (1832–1902) by Hugh Goldwin Riviere
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