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

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, 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 (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 just over four months later of

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at Red Rice, Hampshire. Both titles were inherited by his 1-year-old 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 John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory with whom he had two children: * Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland of Holland and 3rd Baron Holland of Foxley (1773–1840) * Hon 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

/ref> which survives today, on a new location near by, as Fox Primary School.

References

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