Family
He was married twice (1651 and 11 July 1703); by his first wife, Elizabeth Whittle (died August, 1696), daughter of William Whittle and wife, he had seven sons, all of whom predeceased him, and three daughters; by his second, Christiana Hope (died 17 February 1718), daughter of Rev. Francis Hope and wife Christian Palfreyman, he had two sons and two daughters. The elder son by the second marriage, Stephen (1704–1776), was created Lord Ilchester and Stavordale in 1747 and Earl of Ilchester in 1756; in 1758 he took the additional name of Strangways, and his descendants, the family of Fox-Strangways, still hold the Earldom of Ilchester. The younger son, who followed his father into politics, was Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland. One of his daughters from first marriage was Elizabeth Fox (circa 1655 – Tunbridge Wells, 28 February 1681), married in Westminster Abbey on 27 December 1673 to Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis (1655 – 29 April 1698). They were the great-grandparents of General Lord Cornwallis. From the first marriage he was also the father of Jane Fox (died 10 June 1721), wife of George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton.
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