The Old Corps Whig Thomas Robinson held that office until late 1755, when the Bedfordite Henry Fox replaced him.
One of the most influential members of the Ministry was Henry Fox, who served as Leader of the House of Commons.
This appointment prevented his accompanying the expedition to Egypt, where his patron was killed; but his activity and real merit soon won him a powerful friend in the influential General Henry Fox, the brother of the orator, and at this time governor and commander-in-chief in Minorca.
Fox and Newcastle, realising that Minorca was severely vulnerable to a French attack, despatched a naval force to relieve the island.
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The fleet's commander was unable to prevent the Fall of Minorca leading to a major public outburst against both him and the government.
Henry Thoby Prinsep, a director of East India Company family, gained a 21-year lease on it from Henry Fox, 4th Baron Holland thanks to the painter George Frederic Watts, a friend of both the Hollands and the Prinseps.
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With the British Guards brigade under Henry Fox leading the attack, the Duke of York's left column under Ralph Abercromby, stormed into Lannoy, Willems and Mouvaux.