Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland

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Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland of Holland, and 3rd Baron Holland of Foxley PC (21 November 1773 – 22 October 1840), was an English politician and a major figure in Whig politics in the early 19th century. A grandson of Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, and nephew of Charles James Fox, he served as Lord Privy Seal between 1806 and 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents headed by Lord Grenville and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between 1830 and 1834 and again between 1835 and his death in 1840 in the Whig administrations of Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne.

Background and education

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He succeeded in the baronies in December 1774, aged one, on the early death of his father, while his mother died shortly before his fifth birthday. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford,<ref name="Britannica"/> where he became the friend of George Canning and John Hookham Frere. Lord Holland's uncle was the great Whig orator Charles James Fox, and he remained steadily loyal to the Whig party.<ref name="Britannica"/><ref>James Newell McCord, Jr. "Lord Holland the Polticis of the Whig Aristocracy (1807–1827): A Study in Aristocratic Liberalism." PhD dissertation—The Johns Hopkins University, 1968. Proquest Dissertations no. 6816446.</ref>

Political career

On a visit to Paris in 1791, Holland became acquainted with Lafayette and Talleyrand. He took his seat in the House of Lords on 5 October 1796. According to the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica he for a while "almost... constituted the Whig party in the upper house". He was appointed to negotiate a treaty with American envoys James Monroe and William Pinkney,<ref name="Britannica"/> was admitted to the Privy Council on 27 August 1806,<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> and on 15 October entered the Ministry of All the Talents led by Lord Grenville as Lord Privy Seal,<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> retiring with the rest of his colleagues in March 1807.

Holland led the opposition to the Regency Bill in 1811, and he attacked the orders in council and other strong measures of the government taken to counteract Napoleon's Berlin Decrees. He denounced the treaty of 1813 with Sweden which bound Britain to consent to the forcible union of Norway, and he resisted the bill of 1816 for confining Napoleon in Saint Helena.<ref name="Britannica"/> He was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between 1830 and 1834<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> and 1835 and 1840<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> in the cabinets of Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne, and he was still in office when he died in October 1840.<ref name="Britannica"/>

Ownership of slaves

With the Slave Compensation Act 1837 in the aftermath of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, the government paid compensation to former slaveholders.<ref>Kathleen Mary Butler: The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados, 1823-1843. UNC Press Books, 2017</ref> Lord Holland was compensated under three awards for slaves on his estates in Jamaica, which had come to him through his wife, Elizabeth Webster (née Vassall).<ref>"Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland: Profile and Legacies Summary." Center for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery, University College London. Retrieved on 11 October 2022. </ref>

Writings

Holland's protests against the measures of the Tory ministers were collected and published, as the Opinions of Lord Holland (1841), by Dr Moylan of Lincoln's Inn. Lord Holland's Foreign Reminiscences (1850)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> contain much amusing gossip from the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era. His Memoirs of the Whig Party (1852; 2 vols.)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> is an important contemporary authority. He also published a small work on Lope de Vega (1806)<ref name="Britannica"/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and a 2-volume work (1817) on the lives and writings of Lope de Vega and Guillén de Castro.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> His whimsical short story Eve's Legend, in which the only vowel used is the letter E, is considered a precursor to the constraints of the Oulipo school. <ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Family

After visiting Paris in 1791 Holland again went abroad to travel in France and Italy in 1793. At Florence he met Elizabeth Vassall, at that time Lady Webster, wife of Sir Godfrey Webster, 4th Baronet. She and her husband obtained a divorce, and she married Holland on 6 July 1797, becoming Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland. An illegitimate son, Charles Richard Fox, was born to them. He later rose to become a General in the British Army.

They had three more children who survived infancy: the Hon. Stephen Fox (d. 1800), Henry Edward Fox, 4th Baron Holland, and Hon. Mary Elizabeth Fox, married to Thomas Powys, 3rd Baron Lilford. In 1800 he was authorised to take the name of Vassall, and after 1807 he signed himself Vassall Holland, though the name was no part of his title.<ref name="Britannica"/> Lord Holland died in October 1840, aged 66, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest and only surviving legitimate son, Henry. Lady Holland died in November 1845.

Vassall ward

Vassall ward in the London Borough of Lambeth is named after Henry Richard Vassall-Fox who was responsible for the first building development in the area in the 1820s. Roads in the area such as Holland Grove, Lord Holland Lane, Foxley Square and Vassall Road commemorate this connection.

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Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland

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