Charles James Fox
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Charles James Fox, styled The Honourable from 1762, was a British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the arch-rival of the Tor
Portrait of Charles James Fox by Karl Anton Hickel, 1794
Charles James Fox (1782) by Joshua Reynolds
1792 Portrait of Pitt the Younger, attributed to Gainsborough Dupont
Pitt facing Fox in Anton Hickel's The House of Commons, 1793–94
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland
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Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, PC was an English peer and Whig politician who served as the Secretary at War from 1746 to 1755. He also held the offices of Secretary of State for the Southern Departmen
Charles James Fox
…career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the arch-rival of the Tory politician William Pitt the Younger; his father Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, a leading Whig of his day, had similarly been the great rival of Pitt's famous father, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham ("Pitt the Elder"). Fox rose…
Portrait by John Giles Eccardt
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, the bitter political rival of Fox, despite both belonging to the Whig faction
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, with whom in 1755 Fox formed a political alliance, but their government soon fell. Newcastle later made an agreement with Fox's enemy William Pitt, forming the Pitt-Newcastle Ministry
Kingsgate Castle in Kent was built by Holland, although most of the current structure is Victorian