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FOX, HENRY, son of Henry Fox, Salisbury, Wiltshire; b.; adm.; KS 1670; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1674, matr. 3 Jul 1674, aged 17, Westminster Student 6 Dec 1674 - void 1686; BA 1678; MA 11 Mar 1680/1; ordained deacon 19 Sep 1680, priest 19 Dec 1680 (both Oxford).

FOXE, ----; b.; adm.; QS 1565-70 (Chapter Muniments 54006-18, 54020).

FOX-STRANGWAYS, HON. JOHN GEORGE CHARLES, brother of William Thomas Horner Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester (qv); b. 6 Feb 1803; adm. 22 May 1815 (Best's); KS 1817; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1821, adm. pens. 9 Jun 1821 (sic), but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 8 Jun 1821 (sic); BA 1824; a Clerk, Foreign Office; Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter to Queen Adelaide 23 Jul 1830-7; MP (Whig) Calne Sep 1836-7, Dorset 1837-41; m. 19 Feb 1844 Amelia, third dau. of Edward Marjoribanks, Greenlands, Bucks., banker; d. 8 Sep 1859.

FOX-STRANGWAYS, STEPHEN, brother of Edward Fox-Strangways (qv); b. 10 Aug. 1811; adm. 30 Sep 1823 (Stelfox's); KS 1825; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1829, matr. 2 Jun 1829, Westminster Student; BA 1833; MA 1835; d. at Malta 4 Mar 1839

FOX-STRANGWAYS, WILLIAM THOMAS HORNER, 4TH EARL OF ILCHESTER, eldest son of Henry Fox-Strangwways, 2nd Earl of Ilchester, and his second wife Juliana, dau. of Hon. William Digby (qv); b. 7 May 1795; adm. Lady Day 1807; KS (Capt. ) 1809; his “Diary of the Challenge of 1809” is printed in F. H. Forshall, Westminster School Past and Present, 1884, pp 575-84; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1813, matr. 1 Jun 1813, Westminster Student; BA 1816; MA 1820; attaché, British Embassies at St. Petersburg 1816-20, Constantinople 1820-2, Naples 1822-4, and The Hague 1824; Secretary of Legation, Florence 1825-8, Naples 1828-32; Secretary to Embassy, Vienna 1832; Under Secretary, Foreign Office Aug 1835- Mar 1840; Envoy Extraordinasry at Frankfurt Mar 1840- Jan 1849; succ. half-brother as 4th Earl of Ilchester 3 Jan 1858; m. 21 Jul 1857 Sophia Penelope, second dau. of Sir Robert Sheffield, Bart. (qv); d. 10 Jan 1865.

FOXTON, GEORGE LARDNER, son of Rev. George Foxton, Vicar of Coxwell Magna, Berks., and of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, and Sarah Lardner (IGI); bapt. Great Coxwell, Berks. 24 Dec 1794 (IGI); adm. Lady Day 1807; KS (aged 14) 1809; left 1811; Worcester Coll. Oxford, matr. 11 Dec 1812; migrated to Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1816, matr. Mich. 1816; BA 1823; MA 1826; ordained deacon and priest 1818; Perpetual Curate of St. Peter’s Chapel, Blackburn, Lancs., 18 Mar 1829; Vicar of St. Peter, Worcester 20 Sep 1839-52; Vicar of Kempsey, Worcs., from 1852; m. 22 Aug 1822 Anne, dau. of William Hardman, Chaucher Hall, Lancs.; d. 12 Apr 1879.

FOXWELL, PHILIP; b.; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1670; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1673, adm. pens. 29 May 1673, scholar 1674, matr. 1676; BA 1676/7; ordained priest (Norwich) Nov 1679; Rector of Tostock, Suffolk, from 1679; also Rector of Norton, Suffolk 1708-10; m. 17 Apr 1682 Catherine Brydon, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk; buried Tostock, Suffolk 28 May 1736.

FRAIGNEAU, WILLIAM, son of John Fraigneau, First Yeoman of Confectionery, Royal Household, and Madeleine Liege; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jul 1727; KS 1731; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1736, adm. pens. 24 Jun 1736, scholar 6 May 1737; 1st in “ordo” 1739/40; BA 1739/40; MA 1743; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Oct 1742, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1743, Tutor 1743-8; Regius Professor of Greek, Camb. Univ., 1744-50; ordained deacon Mar 1739, priest 23 Oct 1748 (both Winchester); Curate, Wotton, Surrey 1739; tutor to Frederick St. John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke, with whom he travelled in Italy 1753-4; Vicar of Battersea, Surrey, from 18 Mar 1758; Rector of Beckenham, Kent, from 1765; m. 31 Mar 1758 Kitty Smith, Mortlake, Surrey; d. 12 Sep 1778. DNB.

FRANCE, ARTHUR, son of Rev. Thomas France, Precentor of Waterford, Ireland; b.; adm. (aged 14) Feb 1753 (Morel's); KS 1753; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1757, matr. 8 Jun 1757, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1758 - void 25 Jun 1760; ordained deacon (Limerick) 16 Aug 1767, priest (Cork) 25 Jan 1768; Curate, Rathcormac 1767; Vicar of Carryleamleary and Rahan, co. Cork, from 26 Jun 1772; d. 19 Nov 1793, in 54th year.

FRANCKE, PAUL MORTIMER, eldest son of Axel Patrik Francke, London, formerly of Gothenburg, Sweden, merchant, and Ella, dau. of Mortimer Porter, New York, USA, lawyer; b. 24 May 1866; adm. (D) 12 Jun 1879, exhibitioner; QS 27 May 1880; left May 1885; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 17 Oct 1885; BA 1888; MA 1919; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 17 Nov 1890; Revising Barrister 1898-1914; Counsel to Board of Trade in bankruptcy matters 1913-7; Joint Secretary, Aliens Advisory Committee 1915-8; Registrar of High Court in Bankruptcy from Oct 1917; d. unm. 21 Nov 1929.