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6 unusual facts about Fox family of Falmouth


Charles Masson Fox

Masson Fox was born into a Quaker family (although he was not related to the Quakers’ founder George Fox) and was a cousin of the fraudulent sinologist Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet.

Fox family

The Fox family of Falmouth, Cornwall, a prominent Quaker family of the 1800s

Fox Family

Fox family of Falmouth, an influential British family in the 19th Century

Fox family of Falmouth

They had two sons, Charles Masson Fox and Howard Orme Fox, and two daughters, Olivia Lloyd Fox and Stella Fox.

Charles Masson Fox (6 November 1866 – 11 October 1935), chess player.

Samuel Middleton Fox

Samuel Middleton Fox (1856 – 1941) was an amateur writer and dramatist, who also charmingly documented the life of the wealthy, Quaker Fox family of Falmouth during the latter years of the 19th century.


Neath Abbey

In the late 18th century, an Iron Foundry was opened near the Abbey ruins by a company owned by the Price, Fox and Tregelles families.


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