H. R. Fox

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|birth_name = Harold Robert Leslie Fox

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1889|11|17|df=y}}

|birth_place = May Pen, Clarendon, Jamaica

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1951|8|14|1889|11|17|df=y}}

|death_place = Mandeville, Jamaica

|nationality = British

|known_for = General Manager of the Jamaica Government Railway at its centenary in 1945The Jamaica Railway 1845-1945, H R Fox (General Manager, Jamaica Government Railway), The Railway Magazine Volume 91 Number 560 November and December 1945, pages 313-317.

|education =Epsom College

|alma_mater =MIT {{small|(BSc, 1912)}}

|employer = Jamaica Government Railway

|occupation = Civil engineer

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Harold Robert Leslie Fox {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (17 November 1889 – 14 August 1951) was a British civil engineer who was General Manager of the Jamaica Government Railway at the time of its centenary in 1945.

Fox was the son of Edith Blount Gibb and Isaac Fox of Halse Hall, Jamaica.Jamaica, Civil Registration Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1878–1995{{Cite web |title=Isaac Fox 1850 - 1924 |url=https://www.foxfamilyhistory.com.au/isaac_fox_b_1850.htm |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=www.foxfamilyhistory.com.au}} He went to school at Epsom College in England then studied Mining and Civil Engineering at MIT, graduating BSc in 1912.{{Cite journal |date=January 1940 |title=TECHNOLOGY MEN IN ACTION |url=https://archive.org/details/MIT-Technology-Review-1940-01/page/n63/mode/1up |journal=MIT Technology Review |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages=XIX}} After graduating he worked on railways in Canada and the West Indies. He served in the First World War in France with the Royal Engineers reaching the rank of captain.

Fox was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1946 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette|issue=37407|page=62|date=1 January 1946}}

In 1926, he married Daisy Isabel Squire in Jamaica.