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England - 1789

Charles James Fox

Obverse:

Draped bust of Charles James Fox bare head, facing, GLORY BE THINE INTREPID FOX / FIRM AS OLD ALBIENS BATTER'D ROCKS

Size:

35 mm.

Reverse:

RESISTLESS / SPEAKER / FAITHFUL GUIDE / THE COURTIER'S / DREAD / THE PATRIOT^{S^{/ PRIDE}}

Vern's Comments:

This token's a bit scuffed up but the first of three I've been able to acquire with Fox as a subject. BHM mentions that it was manufactured by W. Lutwyche.

D & H notes that 222 was struck in white metal.

England — Middlesex

D & H 222 — Political and Social Series

O: GLORY BE THINE INTREPID FOX FIRM AS OLD ALBIENS BATTER'D ROCKS.

A. 146

BHM:

Charles James Fox (1749-1806) statesman, third son of Henry Fox, first Baron Holland. Educated at Eton and Hertford College, Oxford and in 1768 elected MP for Midhurst. In 1770 he became a member of the Board of the Admiralty under North but seldom bothered to attend. In 1780 Fox was elected MP for Westminster which city he continued, with a slight interruption, to represent till his death. In 1789 he asserted that the Prince of Wales had a right to the Regency. It is possible that Fox's electors supported his attempt to make a new Administration against Pitt, who was opposed to the Prince of Wales as Regent.

p. 75, British Historical Medals 1760-1960 Volume 1.