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See also:FOX, See also:SIR See also:STEPHEN (1627–1716) , See also:English statesman, See also:born on the 27th of See also:March 1627, was the son of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Fox, of Farley, in See also:Wiltshire, a See also:yeoman See also:farmer. At the See also:age of fifteen he first obtained a situation in the See also:household of the See also:earl of See also:Northumberland; then he entered the service of See also:Lord See also:Percy, the earl's See also:brother, and was See also:present with the royalist See also:army at the See also:battle of See also:Worcester as Lord Percy's See also:deputy at the See also:ordnance See also:board. Accompanying See also:Charles II. in his See also:flight to the See also:continent, he was appointed manager of the royal household, on See also:Clarendon's recommendation as " a See also:young See also:man bred under the severe discipline of Lord Percy . . . very well qualified with See also:languages, and all other parts of clerkship, honesty and discretion." The skill with which he managed the exiguous finances of the exiled See also:court earned him further confidence and promotion. He was employed on several important See also:missions, and acted eventually as intermediary between the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king and See also:General See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
Monk. Honours and emolument were his See also:reward after the Restoration; he was appointed to the lucrative offices of first clerk of the board of See also:green See also:cloth and paymaster-general of the forces. In See also:November r661 he became member of See also:parliament for See also:Salisbury. In 1665 he was knighted; was returned as M.P. for See also:Westminster on the 27th of See also:February 1679, and succeeded the earl of See also:Rochester as a See also:commissioner of the See also:treasury, filling that See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office for twenty-three years and during three reigns. In 168o he resigned the pay-mastership and was made first commissioner of See also:horse. In 1684 he became See also:sole commissioner of horse. He was offered a See also:peerage by See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James II., on See also:condition of turning See also:Roman See also:Catholic, but refused, in spite of which• he was allowed to retain his cornmissionerships. In 1685 he was again M. P. for Salisbury, and opposed the See also:bill for a See also:standing army supported by the king. During the Revolution he maintained an attitude of decent reserve, but on James's flight, submitted to William III., who confirmed him in his offices. He was again elected for Westminster in 1691 and 1695, for See also:Cricklade in 1698, and finally in 1713 once more for Salisbury. He died on the 28th of See also:October 1716. It is his distinction to have founded See also:Chelsea See also:hospital, and to have contributed £13,000 in aid of this laudable public See also:work. Though his See also:place as a statesman is in the second or even the third See also:rank, yet he was a useful man in his See also:generation, and a public servant who creditably discharged all the duties with which he was entrusted. Unlike other statesmen of his See also:day, he See also:grew See also:rich in the service of the nation without being suspected of corruption, and without forfeiting the esteem of his See also:con-temporaries.
He was twice married (1651 and 1703); by his first wife, See also:Elizabeth Whittle, he had seven sons, who predeceased him, and three daughters; by his second, See also:Christian Hopes, he had two sons and two daughters. The See also:elder son by the second See also:marriage, Stephen (1704–1776), was created Lord See also:Ilchester and Stavordale in 1947 and earl of Ilchester in 1756; in 1758 he took the additional name of Strangways, and his descendants, the See also:family of Fox-Strangways, still hold the earldom of Ilchester. The younger son, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry, became the 1st Lord See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland (q.v.).
End of Article: FOX, SIR STEPHEN (1627–1716)
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