Clement-Jones family - Person Sheet
NameCaroline FOX
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Birth1819
Death1871
Notes for Caroline FOX
Caroline Fox (24 May 1819 – 12 January 1871) was an
English diarist. She was the daughter of
Robert Were Fox FRS of the influential
Fox family of
Falmouth, and was the younger sister of both
Barclay Fox, also a diarist, and
Anna Maria Fox.
Caroline was well known as the authoress of a diary, recording memories of many distinguished people, such as
John Stuart Mill,
John Sterling and
Thomas Carlyle. Selections from her diary and correspondence (1835–1871) were published under the title of Memories of Old Friends: Caroline Fox of
Penjerrick, Cornwall (edited by
H. N. Pym, 1881; 2nd edition, 1882).[5] A selection from the Victorian edition was published in 1972.[6]
She died on 12 January 1871 and was buried in the Quaker Burial Ground at
Budock