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Fox, Charles James (1749–1806)

English Whig politician, son of the 1st Baron Holland. He entered Parliament in 1769 as a supporter of the court, but went over to the opposition in 1774. As secretary of state in 1782, leader of the opposition to William Pitt the Younger, and foreign secretary in 1806, he welcomed the French Revolution and brought about the abolition of the slave trade.
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Volume II resumes the story of Burke's life at one of its lowest points, the trouncing of the supporters of Charles James Fox ("Fox's Martyrs") at the election of March 1784 by the king's appointee, William Pitt, the Younger.
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