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27: 84: 137:'s intervention got him released. He next served as secretary of legation at Turin (1824), chargé d'affaires at Turin (1824–25), secretary of the legation at Naples (1826–27) and chargé d'affaires at Naples (1827–28). 212: 156:, in the midst of disputes over slavery and Canada that seemed likely to lead to war. Fox did not enjoy his American posting and became more and more reclusive (though he did take up 345: 255: 350: 360: 206: 152:(with the civil war delaying his departure until 1831). He was there from 1831 to 1836, when he moved to be British ambassador to the 365: 340: 335: 297: 165: 355: 70: 48: 133:
court (1814–1818) and then with the French mission (1818–1824). In the latter he was arrested for debt and only the
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over Fox's head. He was retired from the post in 1843 to clear the way to a successful treaty to solve the
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in 1828, but refused this appointment to become first minister-plenipotentiary and envoy-extraordinary at
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dispute. He stayed on in Washington, where he died from a drug overdose in 1846 and was buried in the
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Fox's wit, charm, love of gambling (shared by his uncle
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Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the United States
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views and served as attaché with the mission to the
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Chatham
Henry Edward Fox
Eton College
Christ Church, Oxford
Charles James Fox
Whig
Sicilian
French government
Vienna
Buenos Aires
Rio de Janeiro
United States of America
botanical collecting
Robert Peel
Lord Ashburton
north-eastern boundary dispute
Oregon
Congressional Cemetery
Charles James Fox Bunbury
Foster, Joseph
"Fox, Henry Stephen" 
Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886
Wikisource
"An Eccentric Diplomat"

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