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General First nameHenry
LastnameWilson-Fox
GenderMale
CountryEngland
Date of birth1863-08-18
Place of birthLondon, England
Date of death1921-11-22
Place of deathLondon, England


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From The Times, 23 November 1921:

Obituary – Mr Henry Wilson-Fox M.P.

We regret to announce the death of Mr Henry Wilson-Fox, M.P. for the Tamworth Division of Warwickshire, which occurred yesterday in London after a short illness. Born in London on August 18, 1863, he was the second son of Wilson Fox, M.D., physician in ordinary to Queen Victoria. He was educated at Charterhouse, Marlborough, University College, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he was exhibitioner and scholar, obtaining honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos.

He was called to the Bar in 1888 by Lincoln’s Inn, of which he was an equity scholar. In the following year he went out to Johannesburg on the staff of the Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa, and in 1892 he edited the South African Mining Journal and assisted. Mr John Hays Hammond in drafting the Rhodesian mining laws. He was appointed Public Prosecutor of Rhodesia, and during the rebellion in Matabeleland and Mashonaland in 1896-7 he served as Director of Transport and Commissariat for the Salisbury force, being mentioned in dispatches and receiving the medal with clasp.

Returning to England in 1897, Mr Wilson-Fox was appointed in the following year manager of the British South Africa Company, of which he became a director in 1913. He took a prominent part in the flotation of the Charter Trust and Agency, and represented the Chartered Company on the principal Rhodesian directorates. He was also the inventor and patentee of a system of hydraulic storage.

At a by-election in February, 1917, he was returned unopposed as a Unionist for the Tamworth Division of Warwickshire, and was again unopposed at the General Election of 1918 as the Coalition candidate. Mr Wilson-Fox contributed to The Times in September, 1916, two important articles on finance after the war, in which, after explaining the need for new methods, he propounded a scheme for a board of development. They undoubtedly helped to mould an important body of opinion in favour of Empire development. From time to time he also contributed letters to our columns on the subjects which lie had made his own.

He was a vice-president of the Royal Geographical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and the Royal Colonial Institute, and a member of the Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies. He represented Cambridge at lawn tennis in 1885-6, and was for several years the chief exponent of the game in South Africa; he frequently competed for the English Championship, and was president of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. He was also a golfer and a fisherman. He married in 1898 the Honourable Eleanor Birch Sclater-Booth, C.B.E., aunt of the present Lord Basing, and leaves a son, George Wilson-Fox.

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Archive statistics Career1883 - 1914
Tournament wins0
Matches49
Match wins16


Tournaments Wimbledon - 1914 Wimbledon - 1913 Wimbledon - 1912 Wimbledon - 1911 Wimbledon - 1910 Lowestoft - 1910 Wimbledon Plate (Consolation) - 1910 Wimbledon - 1909 Lowestoft - 1909 Wimbledon - 1908 Wimbledon Plate (Consolation) - 1908 Wimbledon - 1907 Lowestoft - 1907 Wimbledon Plate (Consolation) - 1907 Wimbledon - 1905 Wimbledon Plate (Consolation) - 1905 Berkshire Championships - 1905 Wimbledon - 1904 Wimbledon - 1903 Queens Club Tournament - 1903 Suffolk Championships - 1903 Wimbledon - 1902 Queens Club Tournament - 1902 Wimbledon - 1901 Queens Club Tournament - 1901 Southern Transvaal Championships - 1891 Northumberland Championships - 1888 London Athletic Club - 1888 Darlington - 1888 Northumberland Championships - 1887 Darlington - 1887 Middlesex Championships - 1885 Cambridge University LTC - 1883