Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland of Holland and 2nd Baron Holland of Foxley (20 February 1745 – 26 December 1774) of

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in Kensington, Middlesex, was a British peer.

Biography

Lord Holland was the eldest son of Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland of Foxley (1705–1774) of

and his wife

Lady Caroline Lennox Georgiana Carolina Fox, 1st Baroness Holland, of Holland (27 March 1723 – 24 July 1774), known as Lady Caroline Lennox before 1744 and as Lady Caroline Fox from 1744 to 1762, was the eldest of the Lennox sisters. Family background The Lenno ...

(1723–1774), ''

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'' 1st Baroness Holland of Holland, a daughter of

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. Stephen and his younger brother, the great Whig statesman

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(1749–1806), were a great trial to their parents because of their gambling and other habits. He was educated at

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. When his father died on 1 July 1774, Holland inherited his title (Baron Holland of Foxley) and then his mother's title (Baron Holland of Holland) upon her death three weeks later. Holland died five months later when both titles were inherited by his only son, Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland of Holland and 3rd Baron Holland of Foxley.

Marriage and children

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On 20 April 1766 he married Lady Mary FitzPatrick, a daughter of

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with whom he had two children: * Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland of Holland and 3rd Baron Holland of Foxley (1773–1840) *

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Caroline Fox (3 November 1767 – 12 March 1845), of Little Holland House, Kensington, who died unmarried aged 78. In 1842, on a site on her brother's Holland House estate and near her home at Little Holland House, she founded a

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"for the education of children of the labouring, manufacturing and other poorer classes of Kensington",'The Holland estate: Since 1874', in Survey of London: Volume 37, Northern Kensington, ed. F H W Sheppard (London, 1973), pp. 126–150, quoting source "Endowed Charities (London), vol. iv, 1901, pp. 471–2; M. L. R. 1841/3/832

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Fox Primary School Fox Primary School is a primary school in London for children between the ages of 4 and 11, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is located on Kensington Place, between Kensington Church Street and Notting Hill Gate. The school h ...

References

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