| 词条 | Robert Were Fox the Elder |
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Robert Were Fox (5 July 1754 – 1818) was a Quaker businessman who lived in Falmouth. Life and workFox was born in Fowey, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom, and married Elizabeth Tregelles (1768–1849) in 1788. The couple had six sons, including Charles Fox of Trebah, Robert Were Fox FRS[1] of Penjerrick Garden and Alfred Fox of Glendurgan. Their daughter, Mariana Fox (1807–1863), married Francis Tuckett of Frenchay and became the mother of the mountaineer Francis Fox Tuckett.[2][3] Their daughter, Charlotte born in 1799, married Samuel Fox of Tottenham.[4] The family were Quakers, descended from George Fox of Fowey and his wife, Anna Debell. Robert Were Fox was the son of their son, George Croker Fox, and his wife, Mary Were.[5] It was George Croker Fox who founded a Falmouth ship-brokering business, which survived into the 21st century. During the time Robert Were Fox ran the family's ship-brokering business, family business interests expanded into copper-mining, tin-smelting and foundry-work in partnership with the Williams family. In 1794 R. W. Fox was appointed Consul (Diplomatic Representative) by the United States of America for the port of Falmouth. In 1811, Fox was one of four delegates sent to negotiate with the Post Office headquarters in Lombard Street for the return of the Packet Service station to Falmouth from Plymouth.[6] Notes and references1. ^Philip Payton, ‘Fox, Robert Were (1754–1818)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 13 Jan 2009 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.frenchaymuseumarchives.co.uk/Archives/PagesBiogy/Tuckett/Tuckett_Mariana.htm|title=Mariana Tuckett nee Fox|work=Winterbourne Family History Online|publisher=Frenchay Village Museum|accessdate=2009-01-13}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.frenchaymuseumarchives.co.uk/Archives/PagesBiogy/Tuckett/Tuckett_FF.htm|title=Francis Fox Tuckett|work=Winterbourne Family History Online|publisher=Frenchay Village Museum|accessdate=2009-01-13}} 4. ^Annual Monitor 1879 p.68-78, available online at [https://archive.org/details/annualmonitoran00unkngoog The Internet Archive]. 5. ^Pages 26/27 of Barclay Fox's Journal 6. ^{{cite book|last=Norway|first=Arthur H|title=The Post-Office Packet service: between the years 1793 and 1815, compiled from records, chiefly official|publisher=Macmillan|location=London|pages=197–221}} Further reading
| last = Fox | first = Robert Barclay | authorlink = Barclay Fox | title = Barclay Fox's journal | editor = ed. by Raymond Brett | publisher = Bell and Hyman | year = 1979 | location = London | isbn = 0-7135-1865-0}} and U.S. edition: {{cite book | last = Fox | first = Robert Barclay | authorlink = Barclay Fox | title = Barclay Fox's journal | editor = ed. by Raymond Brett | publisher = Rowman & Littlefield | year = 1979 | location = Totowa, N.J. | isbn = 0-8476-6187-3}} Barclay Fox was R. W. Fox the Elder's grandson. Pages cited above are from the Introductory essay by R. L. Brett {{DEFAULTSORT:Fox, Robert Were}}{{Quaker-stub}}{{Cornwall-stub}} 6 : English businesspeople|People from Fowey|English Quakers|1754 births|1818 deaths|Fox family of Falmouth |
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