Robert Barclay Fox

Robert Barclay Fox (July 24 1873 – April 22 1934), Falmouth businessman and Conservative Cornish politician.

Birth and family background

R.B. Fox was born July 24 1873, the son of Robert Fox (1845–1915) and his wife Ellen Mary Bassett. ["Dictionary of Quaker Biography" (a source in typescript, held at Friends House, London). The article gives as its source an obituary in "The Friend", Volume 92 (1934) pages 378 and 388.]

He was the grandson of another "Robert Barclay Fox", who lived 1817 to 1855, and was known as Barclay Fox, one of the influential local Quaker family of Fox, of Falmouth, Cornwall. He inherited "Grove Hill" and Penjerrick Garden, that his grandfather and great-grandfather had developed.Obituary in "The Times", Tuesday, Apr 24, 1934; pg. 16; Issue 46736; col C ]

Education

He was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford.

Family business

He became the senior partner in the conglomerate business, G.C. Fox & Co (originally a Shipping Agent). 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 St. Olav. [ The Times, Saturday, Feb 13, 1932; pg. 13; Issue 46056; col B Court Circular. Permission granted for RBF to wear the insignia of a foreign honour.]

Local politics

He served as a Cornwall County Councillor and as a governor of a number of local schools, and of the School of Art. He was High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1920. He was the chairman of the Penryn & Falmouth Unionist Association. [The Unionists were against Home Rule in Ireland and consisted of Conservatives and Liberal-Unionists.]

Marriage . . . death

In 1900, he married his cousin, Margaret (Peggy) Bassett. She died in 1928.

He died April 22 1934, aged 61.

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