Background
Ilchester was the son of Honorary John Fox-Strangways, fourth son of Henry Thomas Fox-Strangways, 2nd Earl of Ilchester.
Ilchester was the son of Honorary John Fox-Strangways, fourth son of Henry Thomas Fox-Strangways, 2nd Earl of Ilchester.
He was educated at Eton.
He served as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms under William Ewart Gladstone between January and February 1874. His mother was Amelia Marjoribanks, daughter of Edward Marjoribanks. In January 1874, at the age of only 26, he was appointed Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms in the Liberal administration of William Ewart Gladstone, a post he held until the government fell the following month.
He was admitted to the Privy Council in February of that year.
Lord Ilchester never held political office again but served as Lord Lieutenant of Dorset from 1885 to 1905. Lord Ilchester married Lady Mary Eleanor Anne Dawson, daughter of Richard Dawson, 1st Earl of Dartrey, in 1872.
In 1874 he inherited the Holland House estate in London from a distant cousin in the Holland barony. He died in December 1905, aged 58, and was buried in the family vault at Melbury Osmond, Dorset.
Lady Ilchester died in 1935.