Fox, Charles James PC Claimed

Charles James Fox, PC born 24 January 1749, at 9 Conduit St, Westminster and styled The Honourable from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 27 March 1782 to 5 July 1782, from 2 April 1783 to 19 December 1783 and again from 7 February 1806 to 13 September 1806.

Fox died – still in office – at Chiswick House, west of London, on 13 September 1806, not eight months after the younger Pitt. An autopsy revealed a hardened liver, thirty-five gallstones and around seven pints of transparent fluid in his abdomen