NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Fox, Elizabeth, 1750-1842 NRA: Fox, Elizabeth Vassall (1770-1845) nee Vassall, political hostess, wife of 3rd Baron Holland DNB: Armitstead [née Cane; married name Fox], Elizabeth Bridget (1750-1842), courtesan LBT ID: ElFox1842 VIAF ID: 59882961 LOC ID: n91058309 | B/BAP: 1750-07-11 DIED: 1842-07-08 |
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English courtesan who succeeded Mary Robinson in the affections of the Prince of Wales;
she was secretly married to Charles James Fox in 1795; the marriage was publicly
acknowledged in 1802. | |
REFERENCES TO Elizabeth Bridget Armistead Fox [née Cane]: Sir Robert Adair to Lady Melbourne, 27 September 1802 in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished
Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper,
afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Found 1:
¶ 1 George Robinson to Lady Melbourne, [21 November 1802] in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished
Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper,
afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Found 1:
¶ 2 Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, 13 October 1805 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1:
¶ 2 Eleanor Creevey to Thomas Creevey, 8 November 1805 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1:
¶ 1 Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, 26 October 1808 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1:
¶ 1 Lord Sefton to Thomas Creevey, [1820] in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1:
¶ 1 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on
Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 1:
¶ 108 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VII. 1816-1818. Found 1:
¶ 12 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished
Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper,
afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter III. Found 1:
¶ 4 Chapter V. Found 1:
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