Country Vicar
Fox graduated from Cambridge in the winter of 1829 and took up a curacy at Epperstone, near Nottingham. He was forced to take sick leave in 1833 and convalesced at Sandown on the Isle of Wight. It was here that he met his first wife Harriet Fletcher and they were married in 1834. Fox returned to Epperstone for a short time but finally gained the living at Delamere where he remained the incumbent until 1873
A notice in the London Gazette for Friday 6 April 1838 states:
"The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. William Darwin Fox, M.A. to the rectory of Delamere in the diocese and county of Chester, ..."
Fox was very active in the local community At Delamere, especially the local school where he taught. The school is still referred to as Fox's school. He retired through ill health in 1873.
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