Background
Fox was born on Guernsey, the son of an Irish doctor, William Burton Fox.
Fox was born on Guernsey, the son of an Irish doctor, William Burton Fox.
He was educated at Sherborne School and Pembroke College, Cambridge where he studied medicine.
He then joined London Rowing Club and 1952 he came second in the Diamond Challenge Sculls to Mervyn Wood. He competed in the Summer Olympics at Helsinki in the single sculls and came fourth overall. In 1953 he regained the Diamond Challenge Sculls and retained the Wingfield Sculls for the third year.
Marsden had beaten Fox in the first tideway Scullers Head earlier that year.
In 1956 Fox was runner up to Teodor Kocerka in the Diamond Challenge Sculls. He competed in the Summer Olympics at Melbourne but only made it to the second heat.
He retired to Cornwall in 1989 to Cornwall. He died four days after his eighty-second birthday.
Fox married Paula Sweby, a nurse at Street George"s, in 1958 and had four daughters.