Early in the Civil War, Edgbaston Hall, along with Hawkesley House, now the site of a council housing estate in Longbridge, was a stronghold of Colonel John Fox, the so-called "Jovial Tinker".
Tinker Fox, Colonel John Fox (1610 – 1650), English Parliamentarian Soldier, erroneously referred to as Thomas Fox by some sources
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