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Charles James Fox

1749 - 1806

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Charles James Fox (24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a British Whig politician and statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the arch-rival of the Tory politician William Pitt the Younger; his father Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, a leading Whig of his day, had similarly been the great rival of Pitt's famous father, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham ("Pitt the Elder"). Fox rose to prominence in the House of Commons as a forceful and eloquent speaker with a notorious and colourful private life, though at that time with rather conservative and conventional opinions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles James Fox has received more than 1,028,339 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Charles James Fox is the 11,649th most popular politician (down from 11,364th in 2019), the 2,440th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,540th in 2019) and the 364th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Charles James Fox ranks 11,649 out of 19,576Before him are Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Abdulsalami Abubakar, Sempad the Constable, Mithridates I of the Bosporus, Lawrence Eagleburger, and Maciej Rataj. After him are Peter Pellegrini, Cirilo Antonio Rivarola, Lucius Caecilius Metellus Calvus, Edward Lowassa, Prince Maurice of Battenberg, and Nicolau dos Reis Lobato.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1749, Charles James Fox ranks 21Before him are Vittorio Alfieri, Alexander Radishchev, Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, Martin Vahl, Georg Joseph Vogler, and Johann Nikolaus Forkel. After him are Christian August Lorentzen, Princess Louisa of Great Britain, John Sims, Charles Wilkins, Gertrud Elisabeth Mara, and Edward Rutledge. Among people deceased in 1806, Charles James Fox ranks 37Before him are Horatio Gates, Michael von Melas, Gim Hongdo, Timothy Dexter, Jean Joseph Mounier, and Eugenios Voulgaris. After him are Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen, Gabriel François Doyen, George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, Karoline von Günderrode, Henry Knox, and Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles James Fox ranks 2,440 out of 8,785Before him are Arthur Wynne (1871), Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (1478), Thomas Wright (1711), Eddie Clarke (1950), Ian Khama (1953), and Robert T. A. Innes (1861). After him are John Henry Mackay (1864), Prince Maurice of Battenberg (1891), John Shrapnel (1942), Sidney Smith (1764), Grace Elliott (1754), and J. B. Priestley (1894).

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