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Henry Fox, 4th Baron Holland

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531: 456: 243: 616:, and his wife, the former Lady Mary Augusta Coventry. Lord and Lady Holland had no biological children of their own, having gone through two stillbirths and one short-lived child. Lady Holland was in her late thirties and Lord Holland insisted on adopting the girl. Her biological paternity remains a mystery; one rumour had it that she was her adoptive father's biological daughter born by his 115: 27: 68: 491:). In it, he records his life in British high society and his travels, his encounters with such notables as Talleyrand, Samuel Rodgers, Sydney Smith and Lord Byron (and Byron's mistress, Teresa Guiccioli, with whom Fox had an affair which he recounts in some detail). 963: 883: 263: 973: 530: 714: 132: 40: 854: 393: 692: 978: 89: 76: 487:
Selections from the entertaining journal, Fox kept from 1818 to 1830 were published in 1923, edited by his cousin and eventual heir Lord Ilchester (
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Ermine, on a chevron azure three fox's heads and necks erased or on a canton of the second a fleur-de-lys of the third
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The peerage and baronetage of the british empire as at present existing arranged and printed..., 1859, p. 307.
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On 9 May 1833, Fox married Lady Mary Augusta Coventry (11 May 1812 – 23 September 1889), a daughter of
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Unable to have surviving offspring, they adopted a 3 month old girl born in France,
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as Marie Henriette Adélaïde. When she was three months old, she was found by a
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called Dr. Séguin, who arranged for her to be adopted by
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in 1831, after which he was Secretary to the Legation at
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