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HOLLAND. 24?, II. 1774. 2. STEPHEN (Fox), Baron HOLLAND, [1762] and Baron- Holland of Foxley, [1763], 1st s and h., (») b. 20 Feb. 1745 ; sue to. his Father in the Peerage of 1763. on 1 July 1774, and to his Mother in the Peerage of 1762. on the 24th of the same month. He was Clerk of the Pells (I.) He m. 20 April 1760, at the Duke of Bedford's Chapel in Bedford House, Mary 1st da. of John Fitz- fatrick, 1st Earl of Ui'fbk Ossohy [I], 1 iy Evelyn, da. of John (Leveson-Gower) Eari. Cower. He (/. within six months of his parents, 26 Dec., 1774, and was bur. at Farlev afsd. Will nr. Dec, 1771. His widow d. 6 Oct., 1778, and was bur. at Farley. Will pr. 1778. III. 1774. Henry Richard (Fox, afterwards Vassall Fox), Baron Holland [1762], and Baron Holland of Foxlky [1763], only s, and h., 6. 21 Nov. 1773, at Winterslow House, Wilts; sue. to the peerage, 26 Dec. 1771 : ed. at Eton. mat. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 29 Oct 1790: cr. M.A., 20 June, 1792 ; took his seat in the House of Lords, 5 Oct. 1796, where, till some dozen years later he was " rather the Whig party itself than its Leader," ( b ) and where his numerous " pro- tests " entered on the journals of that House, extend till 1841; P.C., 1806, being Lord Privy Seal for a short time, Oct. 1S06 to March 1807, during some part of the short ministry of "All the talents." After 27 years absence from office, he, in 1S30, became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, which post (save for some short intervals) he retained till his death in. 1840 ; F.R.S., F.S.A., &c. He hi., 9 July 1797, at Rickmansworth, Herts, Elizabeth, the divorced wife of Sir Godfrey Weuster,( c ) 4th Bart., da. and h. of Richard Vassall, of Jamaica, who was s. and h. ap. of Florentius Vassall, under whose will, dat. 20 Sep. 1777, she and her then husband (Lord Holland) had Royal lie, IS June 1S00 (the said Richard Vassall being then dead) to " take and use the surname of Vassall, only, next and immediately after their own and respective christian names." In spite of ber questionable ( d ) man- ners and her more than questionable character, her political reunions at Holland House were the resort and support of the Whig party for many years. Lord Holland (/. at Holland House 22 Oct. 1840, in his 67th year, and was bur. at Millbrooke (near Ainpthili Park) Beds. Will pr. Feb. 1841. His widow d. in South street, Grosvenor square, 16 Nov. 1845, aged 75, and was bur, at Millbrooke afsd. Will pr. March 1846. from all parties in the State ami out of favour at Court, he asked for it in vain. Disappointed in ambition and broken down in health, he divided most of his time iu t ravelling on the continent and in constructing at Kingsgate, near the north Fore- land, a fantastic habitation, purporting ■ to represent Tullgs Formian I' ilia.'" [Nat. Jliogr]. It was to this villa that Gray refers as under. " Old, and abandoned by each venal friend, Here Holland formed the pious resolution To smuggle a few years, and strive to mend A broken character and constitution." The place itself, which Wraxall (" Memoirs," vol. ii., p. 8, edit. 1884), calls "a fine estate and a magnificent house," with " a colonnade such as Ictinus might have raised by order of Pericles " was (as was also the sinecure place £2,000 a year of the Clerk- ship of the Pells [I.]) sold by his celebrated son, Charles James Fox, to pay his gambling debts. ( tt ) The 2d surv. s. was the Rt. Hon. Charles James Fox, the well-known States man, who was 4. 24 Jan. 1748/9), in Conduit street, St. Geo. Han. square, and who d- s,p. at Chiswick, 13 Sep., and was bur. 10 Oct. 1807 at Westm. Abbey. ( b ) See "Nat. Biogr." Lord Holland was a great traveller, and a good classic, and was the author of Beveral works on these as well as on political subjects. (<=) He obtained £6,000 damages in att action of crim. con. against Lord Holland by whom the Lady had already had a son, Gen. Charles Beresford Fox, who d. 13 April 1S73, aged 77. ( d ) See numerous anecdotes of her insolent behaviour to her guests, in the " Nat. Biogr."