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English: Portrait inscribed: "Honble Miss Fox; J S Northcote 1810 pinx(i)t ". This appears to be Hon. Caroline Fox (3 Nov 1767 - 12 Mar 1845), aged 43 in 1810, only daughter of Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland (1745-1774) (son of Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland (1705-1774) by his wife Lady Caroline Lennox (1723-1774)) of Holland House, Kensington, by his wife Lady Mary FitzPatrick, a daughter of John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory. Hon. Caroline Fox was a sister of Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland (1773-1840) of Holland House, Kensington, and was a niece of the statesman Charles James Fox (1749-1806). Collection of Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon, Accession Loan No. 274/1982.

For the date of her birth as "3 Nov 1767" see: Christie, Ian, R., The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 3: January 1781 to October 1788, 2017 (first published 1971), p.95, footnote 8[1]. Her year of birth is confirmed as about 1767 in a contemporary letter from Jeremy Bentham to George Wilson, dated 24 Sept 1781: "Miss Fox is a little girl between 13 and 14, a sister, and the only one, of the present Lord Holland who is about 9, consequently niece to Charles Fox and to Lady Shelburne and great-niece to the Duchess of Bedford" (Christie, p.95)

For the date of her death see: The Spectator, 15 March 1845, p.253, notice of deaths[2] "On the 12th (March 1845) at Little Holland House, Kensington, the Hon. Caroline Fox, niece of Charles James Fox and sister of the late Lord Holland".
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Source https://rammcollections.org.uk/object/274-1982/
Author James Northcote (1746-1831)

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"Honble Miss Fox", 1810 portrait by James Northcote (1746-1831) of Hon. Caroline Fox (1767-1845), then aged 43, only daughter of Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland. Collection of Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon

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current14:10, 11 October 2018Thumbnail for version as of 14:10, 11 October 2018445 × 544 (36 KB)Lobsterthermidor{{Information |description ={{en|1=Portrait inscribed: "J S Northcote 1810 pinx't Hon<sup>ble</sup> Miss Fox". Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon. This appears to be Hon. Caroline Fox, a daughter of Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland, and Lady Mary FitzPatrick, daughter of John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory, and Lady Evelyn, daughter of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower. Hon. Caroline Fox was a sister of Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland (1773-1840). His paterna...
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