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Robert Gerard Fox

1849–1909

Son of William Darwin Fox and Ellen Sophia Fox. BA, Oxford, 1872. English tutor to Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert of Prussia (later Kaiser Wilhelm II). Justice of the peace, Hampshire.

Sources

Alum. Oxon.

Darwin pedigree

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 29 March 2017)

Larkum 2009, p. 216

Bibliography

Alum. Oxon.: Alumni Oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1886: … with a record of their degrees. Being the matriculation register of the university. Alphabetically arranged, revised, and annotated by Joseph Foster. 8 vols. London and Oxford: Parker & Co. 1887–91.

Darwin pedigree: Pedigree of the family of Darwin. Compiled by H. Farnham Burke. N.p.: privately printed. 1888. [Reprinted in facsimile in Darwin pedigrees, by Richard Broke Freeman. London: printed for the author. 1984.]

Larkum, Anthony W. D. 2009. A natural calling: life, letters and diaries of Charles Darwin and William Darwin Fox. [Dordrecht]: Springer.

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