Henry Fox, 4th Baron Holland

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Henry Edward Fox, 4th Baron Holland of Holland and 4th Baron Holland of Foxley (7 May 1802 – 18 December 1859) was briefly a British Whig politician and later an ambassador.

Fox was born at Holland House, London, the eldest legitimate child of the 3rd Baron Holland and his wife, Elizabeth Vassal, and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He briefly held the seat of Horsham from 1826-27 before joining the Diplomatic Service in 1831, after which he was Secretary to the Legation at Turin from 1832-35, Attaché at St Petersburg, Secretary at the Embassy in Vienna from 1835-38, to the German Confederation in 1838 and to Florence from 1839-46. On 9 May 1833, he had married Lady Mary Augusta Coventry (11 May 1812 – 23 September 1889) (a daughter of the 8th Earl of Coventry); although the marriage produced no children, they did have an adopted daughter, Marie "Mary" Henriette Adelaide Fox (Paris, 21 December 1850 – Schloss Burgstall, Steiermark, 26 December 1878) (who was said to be and most likely was his illegitimate child by an unknown presumably French mother), who married in London on 27 June 1872 Prince Aloys Franz de Paula Maria of Liechtenstein (Vienna, 19 November 1846 – Vienna, 25 March 1920) (later remarried in Vienna on 20 May 1890 without issue to Johanna Elisabeth Maria von Klinkosch (Vienna, 13 August 1849 – Baden bei Wien, 31 January 1925), daughter of Joseph, Ritter von Klinkosch and Elise Swoboda), by whom she had four daughters, the middle two of which died unmarried and the first one married without any issue. As Lord Holland died without male issue, in Naples, his titles became extinct.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Robert Hurst Sir John Aubrey, Bt	Member of Parliament for Horsham with Robert Hurst 1826–1827	Succeeded by Robert Hurst Nicholas Ridley-Colborne
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Henry Vassall-Fox	Baron Holland 1840–1859	Succeeded by (extinct)
	Baron Holland of Foxley 1840–1859