Letters to Caroline Fox from her aunt, Marianne, wife of Gen. Hon. Henry Edward Fox (1784-1842)

Marianne (nee Clayton), the daughter of William Clayton, MP, was born in c.1763. She married British Army officer Henry Edward Fox in November 1786. Henry served as the governor of Minorca and governor of Gibraltar. They had three children together: Louisa Amelia, Caroline Amelia and Henry Stephen. Marianne died in 1808 in Salisbury, Wiltshire.

Caroline Fox (1767-1845) was the only daughter of Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland. In 1842, she founded a charity school on a site at what was now her brother Henry Vassall-Fox’s estate Holland House, and near her home Little Holland House. The school was for children of the poorer classes in Kensington. It survives today, though on a different site, as Fox Primary School. Caroline died unmarried in 1845, aged 78.