Background
Fox was born at Holland House, London, the eldest legitimate child of the 3rd Baron Holland and his wife, Elizabeth Vassall, and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford.
Fox was born at Holland House, London, the eldest legitimate child of the 3rd Baron Holland and his wife, Elizabeth Vassall, and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford.
Selections from the entertaining journal he kept from 1818 to 1830 were published in 1923, edited by Lord Ilchester (The Journal of the Honorary Henry Edward Fox). In it, he records his life in British high society and his travels, his encounters with such notabilities as Talleyrand, Samuel Rodgers, Sydney Smith and Lord Byron (and Byron"s mistress, Teresa Guiccioli, with whom Fox had an affair which he recounts in some detail). He briefly held the seat of Horsham from 1826-1827 before joining the Diplomatic Service in 1831, after which he was Secretary to the Legation at Turin from 1832-1835, Attaché at Street St. Petersburg, Secretary at the Embassy in Vienna from 1835-1838, to the German Confederation in 1838 and to Florence from 1839-1846.
8th United Kingdom Parliament.