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Henry Stephen Fox

1791–1846

Diplomat. Minister plenipotentiary to Buenos Aires, 1831–2; Rio de Janeiro, 1833–6; Washington, D.C., 1836–44. Formed a herbarium in the Americas which eventually passsed to his nephew, Charles James Fox Bunbury. Died in Washington, D.C.

Sources

R. Desmond 1977

ODNB.

Bibliography

Desmond, Ray. 1977. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists, including plant collectors and botanical artists. 3d ed. London: Taylor and Francis.

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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