Charles Fox (scientist)

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Charles Fox (December 22, 1797–April 18, 1878 a Quaker scientist, developed Trebah Garden, near Mawnan Smith in Cornwall.

He was the son of Robert Were Fox the Elder and Elizabeth Tregelles, his wife. He was born December 22, 1797. He was the younger brother of Robert Were Fox F.R.S..

Fox was a partner in the family Shipping Brokerage, at Falmouth and General Manager of the Perran Iron Foundry at Perranarworthal from 1825, handing over the post to his nephew Barclay Fox around 1842 He was also active in various other family business enterprises, including copper mining and smelting in Cornwall and South Wales.

In 1825 he married Sarah Hustler of Bradford. Their daughter Juliet married Edmund Backhouse M.P. for Darlington.

The Fox family played a large part in the establishment of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society at Falmouth. Charles Fox was its President in 1871–2. In 1841, in connection with the society, he founded the Lander prizes for maps and essays on geographical districts.

With Robert Hunt, Charles Fox helped to found in 1859 the Miners' Association of Cornwall and Devon. He was president of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall in 1864–7. He contributed a number of articles on diverse topics to learned and scientific journals

For the last twenty-five years of his life he lived at Trebah, near Falmouth, and died there on April 18, 1878, being buried in the Quaker burial-ground, Budock.

[edit] Reference

• Boase, G.C. (2004). Fox, Charles (1797–1878). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved on [[June 13, 2006]].

Persondata
NAME	Fox, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Businessman, garden designer and scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 22, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH	April 18, 1878
PLACE OF DEATH	Falmouth