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Fox was born the son of Robert Fox (1845–1915) and his wife Ellen Mary Bassett. He was the grandson of another "Robert Barclay Fox" (1817–1855) and was also known as Barclay Fox, one of the influential local Quaker family of Fox, of Falmouth, Cornwall.
He was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford.
He was known as Barclay Fox. He was a director of the Falmouth Dock Board and Consul for Denmark and Vice-Consul for Norway, Germany and Finland. The King of Norway awarded him a knighthood of the order of Saint Olav.
He served as a Cornwall County Councillor and as a governor of a number of local schools, and of the School of Artist
He was High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1920. He was the chairman of the Penryn & Falmouth Unionist Association.
Barclay Fox supported the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, like many of his family. He was its Vice-President 1909-1912.
Its Annual Report 1934 included a photographic portrait of him.
Barclay Fox also followed his family in his interest in horticulture and continued his father, grandfather and great-grandfather"s development of Penjerrick. Naomi was its Secretary. Margaret Fox died in 1928.
Barclay Fox died on 22 April 1934, aged 61.
Margaret and Naomi were members of a Women"s Suffrage society in Falmouth affiliated to National Union of Women"s Suffrage Societies.
