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[edit] Edward Long Fox
Edward Long Fox (April 26, 1762-May 2, 1835) [1], physician and businessman, founder and proprietor of a lunatic asylum at Brislington, Somerset and developer of Weston-super-Mare as a sea-bathing resort.
[edit] The Fox Family
Edward Long Fox was part of the large Quaker Fox family that were settled across the West Country, the branches in Falmouth becoming very influential in the town and in Cornwall.
He was born in 1862, son of Joseph Fox (1729 - February 25, 1785[2]), physician, of Falmouth and Elizabeth Hingston, his wife, one of eleven children [3].
He and his elder brother, Joseph Fox (July 13, 1758-February 25, 1832) [2], also became physicians, following their father.
His father's father, George Fox of Par, married twice, first, to Mary Bealing and, second, to Anna Debell[4]. Among the children of the first marriage was George Fox (1746-1816), who settled at Perranarworthal near Falmouth and established himself as a merchant [5]
The children of George Fox's second marriage to Anna Debell included George Croker Fox (1727/8-1781)[5] who established a long-lived firm of Shipping Brokers, G.C.Fox & Company, first at Fowey and from 1761 in Falmouth.
Joseph Fox (1729-1784), Edward Long Fox's father, was another son of George and Anna Fox. Many of his descendants became physicians and surgeons. The Oxford Companion to Medicine article "Quakers and medicine" states there were 21 doctors in the Fox dynasty [6].
[edit] Marriages and families
He married twice and had 15 daughters and 8 sons [4]
Edward Long Fox married [7].
- (1) Catherine Brown
- (2) Isabella Ker
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[edit] The French business 1785
Cornwall Record Office: Listing of details of Document AD447: Copy of Doctor Edward Fox's account of the French business 1785. About restitution of French prize property in 1785 by Joseph Fox of Falmouth, surgeon.
Authentic narrative felt to be necessary from his surviving children.
Outlines the beginning of Joseph Fox's business at Fowey as a merchant, with two small ships trading between Bilboa in Spain and Fowey and wholesale trade in Cornwall.
He was a Quaker.
Two eldest sons of his father George Fox (of Par) were Edward, the eldest son, a merchant at Wadebridge and George Croker Fox, merchant at Falmouth who established a mercantile business.
Francis, youngest son of George Fox died young. His sons aided by W Cockworthy, druggist (their maternal grandfather), built up a good business in the drug trade.
One of Francis' sons, Joseph, served apprenticeship as a surgeon and apothecary at Fowey.
He married Elizabeth Hingston and settled at Falmouth.
Joseph Fox took one-quarter share in two luggers or cutters, protection vessels against smugglers during the peace after the American War.
When war broke out in 1778, two of his partners (not Quakers) insisted on getting letters of marque for the luggers to capture enemy merchantmen. Joseph Fox was unhappy about this and offered to sell his partners his share. They refused but later they wanted it, by which time he was determined to effect restitution of his share.
He wrote to his second son Edward Long Fox, a medical student at Edinburgh, asking him to transact business in France to Holland. It is against discipline of Society of Friends to be engaged in privateers or letters of marque - he knew the Society would put him under discipline. In mid-October 1784, Edward Long Fox and his wife went to Paris. They remained there till mid-January 1785, when his father Joseph Fox sent him instructions about the prizes concerned (listed) and asked him to advertise in French newspapers.
A copy of advertisement in French which appeared in the Gazette de France, February 25th, 1785. Joseph told Doctor Fox about the object of the mission but no-one else, in advising his executrix to have nothing to do with the money from France if it could be helped.
Edward Long Fox settled the business in France by the end of July 1785, French Prime Minister inserted a note in Gazette de France referring to Joseph Fox's generosity and the noble principles of the Society of Friends. The watermark on paper of this account is dated 1814.
[edit] Legacy
[edit] Brislington House
Brislington House was sold in 1951 and became a Nurses’ Home, a Nursing Home and has now, in the 21st. Century, been converted into luxury flats and renamed Long Fox Manor'.
[edit] Lecture series
He should not be confused with another Edward Long Fox, in whose name an annual public lecture has been endowed, at the University of Bristol [9].
He died in 1832.
[edit] References
- ^ DoD from Asylums Index.
- ^ a b Death date of Joseph Fox (1729-1785) and date of death of Joseph Fox (1758-1832)are from Foxhound
- ^ The Hingston Pedigree, copied from a chart by JOHN ALLEN, of Liskeard; by Robt. Dymond, Jun., 1851. (including Fox & Tregelles marriages to Hingston girls). and Richard Hingston of Penryn and his family (from a document of vague provenance) on Chris Burgoyne's website.
- ^ a b c Redwood, U.M. (1989) A family of Quaker doctors photocopied electric typewriter text. Copy at Falmouth Public Library: Local History Reference Section.
- ^ a b The Biographical dictionary of British Quakers in commerce and industry, 1775-1920, by Edward H. Milligan, Sessions of York (2007) ISBN 978-1-85702-367-7.
- ^ Oxford Companion to Medicine online on Google Books accessed 8 November 2007 - page 696.
- ^ Names of Children of EL Fox listed at http://www-civ.eng.cam.ac.uk/cjb/hingston/hpad.htm (accessed 15 February 2008). His eldest son was also named "Edward Long Fox" but he died young.
- ^ Cornwall Record Office: Listing of details of Document AD447: Copy of Doctor Edward Fox's account of the French business 1785.
- ^ University of Bristol Public lectures webpage. (accessed 15 Sept 2007),
The connection, if any, with the earlier E.L. Fox has not been established.Long Fox Memorial Lecture: The Edward Long Fox Memorial Fund was raised by subscription among the friends of Edward Long Fox, M.D., F.R.C.P. (1832-1902), Physician at the Bristol Royal Infirmary from 1857 to 1877 and Lecturer in the Bristol Medical School from 1869 to 1874. The income from the fund is used mainly to provide an annual lecture on some subject connected with medicine or the allied sciences, to be held at University College, Bristol (later the University of Bristol) and given by a lecturer either selected from Bristol or the neighbourhood or who has been a student or a member of the teaching staff. The first lecture was given by Dr. J. Beddoe in 1904. In 1958 the Trusteeship of the Fund was transferred to the University.
[edit] Sources
- "Dictionary of Quaker Biography" (a source in typescript, held at Friends House, London).
- Redwood, U.M. (1989) A family of Quaker doctors photocopied electric typewriter text. Copy at Falmouth Public Library: Local History Reference Section.
Online
- The Foxhound online database of people with surname "Fox".
- >HINGSTON PEDIGREE Copied from a chart by JOHN ALLEN, of Liskeard; by ROBT. DYMOND, JUN., 1851. (including Fox & Tregelles marriages). and Richard Hingston of Penryn and his family (from a document of vague provenance) on Chris Burgoyne's website.</ref>.
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