Portrait inscribed: "honble miss fox; j s northcote 1810 pinx(i)t ". This appears to be hon. Caroline fox (3 nov 1767 - 12 mar 1845), aged 43 in 1810, only daughter of stephen fox, 2nd baron holland (1745-1774) (son of henry fox, 1st baron holland (1705-1774) by his wife lady caroline lennox (1723-1774)) of holland house, kensington, by his wife lady mary fitzpatrick, a daughter of john fitzpatrick, 1st earl of upper ossory. Hon. Caroline fox was a sister of henry vassall-fox, 3rd baron holland (1773-1840) of holland house, kensington, and was a niece of the statesman charles james fox (1749-1806). Collection of royal albert memorial museum, exeter, devon, accession loan no. 274/1982. For the date of her birth as "3 nov 1767" see: christie, ian, r. , the collected works of jeremy bentham: correspondence of jeremy bentham, volume 3: january 1781 to october 1788, 2017 (first published 1971), p. 95, footnote 8[1]. Her year of birth is confirmed as about 1767 in a contemporary letter from jeremy bentham to george wilson, dated 24 sept 1781: "miss fox is a little girl between 13 and 14, a sister, and the only one, of the present lord holland who is about 9, consequently niece to charles fox and to lady shelburne and great-niece to the duchess of bedford" (christie, p. 95)
for the date of her death see: the spectator, 15 march 1845, p. 253, notice of deaths[2] "on the 12th (march 1845) at little holland house, kensington, the hon. Caroline fox, niece of charles james fox and sister of the late lord holland". Date: 1810.
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