Henry Fox Quotes


Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.


Citations

Walpole, Horace. Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second. Vol. 1, Henry Colburn, 1847, p. 345.

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Henry Fox
Henry Fox
  • Born: September 28, 1705
  • Died: July 1, 1774
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Statesman

Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, PC, of Holland House in Kensington and of Holland House in Kingsgate, Kent, was a leading British politician. He identified primarily with the Whig faction. He held the posts of Secretary at War, Southern Secretary and Paymaster of the Forces, from which latter post he enriched himself. Whilst widely tipped as a future Prime Minister, he never held that office. His third son was the Whig statesman Charles James Fox.