biography
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Holland (of Foxley and of Holland), Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3rd Baron
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| (1773–1840)
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| biography:
| British Liberal statesman, born at Winterslow House, Wiltshire, S England, UK. He studied at Oxford, was Lord Privy Seal in the Grenville ministry (1806–7), and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1830–4). He worked for reform of the criminal code, attacked the slave trade (although he was himself a West Indian planter), and threw himself wholeheartedly into the the corn-law struggle. |
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