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Celebrating Hampshire Historians

Fox, Charles Frederick

1859 – September 1953

Charles Fox came from a well-established Southampton family and his father, Frederick, inherited enough money to build a country house (The Lawn) at Bursledon.  Charles pursued a career in banking and eventually became manager of the Capital and Counties Bank in Winchester.

He had an abiding interest in geology and archaeology and was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. In his capacity as Bank Manager, he visited numerous farms and was able to explore the chalk pits, barrows and earthworks, writing letters and articles about them for the local press. On a number of these excursions, he took along his son Cyril (1882 – 1967) who was to become a pre-eminent British archaeologist and Director of the National Museum of Wales. 

Fox had wide ranging interests, investigating sites as varied as a Bronze Age ritual shaft (with Williams-Freeman), ancient salt works (with Crawford and Sumner) as well as lost tumuli and the wreck of the Grace Dieu.

Sources

Cyril Fox, Archaeologist Extraordinary, Charles Scott-Fox 2002.

Portrait

Charles Fox

Contribution to county’s history

Charles Fox had an inquisitive interest in the area between Southampton and Fareham, investigating numerous sites and monuments.

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Critical Comments

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Contributor

Dave Allen November 2021

Keywords

Geology, archaeology

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