Richard Maxwell Fox

{{short description|Irish politician, 1816-1856}}

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|office = Member of Parliament
for Longford

|term_start = 13 August 1847

|term_end = 26 April 1856

|predecessor = Anthony Lefroy
Henry White

|successor = Fulke Greville-Nugent
Henry George Hughes

|alongside = Fulke Greville-Nugent (1852–1856)
Richard More O'Ferrall (1851–1852)
Samuel Blackall (1847–1852)

|birth_date = 1816

|birth_place = Raheny, Dublin, Ireland

|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1856|04|26|1816}}

|death_place = St Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, Sussex, England

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|nationality = Irish

|party = Independent Irish

|otherparty = Repeal Association

|parents = Francis Fox
Frances Browne

|spouse = {{marriage|Susan Amelia Halsted|1835}}

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Richard Maxwell Fox (1816 – 26 April 1856){{cite web |last1=Rayment |first1=Leigh |title=The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "L" |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Lcommons4.htm |website=Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page |accessdate=6 October 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006190236/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Lcommons4.htm|archivedate=6 October 2018 |url-status=usurped |date=28 August 2018 }}{{cite web |last1=Lundy |first1=Darryl |title=Richard Maxwell Fox |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p52038.htm |website=The Peerage |accessdate=6 October 2018 |date=19 December 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006190933/http://www.thepeerage.com/p52038.htm|archivedate=6 October 2018 |url-status=live}} was an Irish Independent Irish Party and Repeal Association politician.{{cite book |last1=Boase |first1=Frederic |title=Modern English Biography (Volume 1 of 4) A-H |date=2018 |publisher=Litres |isbn=9785041269647 |page=1884 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-51oDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1884-IA101 |via = Google Books |accessdate=6 October 2018}}

Born in Raheny, Dublin, Fox was the son of Francis Fox and Frances, daughter of Jemmett Browne and Frances née Blennerhassett. In 1835, he married Susan Amelia Halsted, daughter of William Halsted and Emma Mary née Pellew, and they had six children: Emma Louisa; Frances Amelia; Annie Elizabeth (died 1878); Susan Henrietta (died 1883); Francis William (1836–1855); and Richard Edward (1846–1885).

He also had two children with actress Frances Medex[http://www.thepeerage.com/p52038.htm thepeerage.com] - Walter Charles Fox Medex and Marianne Rose Fox.

Fox became a Repeal Association MP for Longford at the 1847 general election and, becoming an Independent Irish MP in 1852, held the seat until his death in 1856.{{cite book|editor1-last=Walker|editor1-first=B.M.|title=Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922|date=1978|publisher=Royal Irish Academy|location=Dublin|isbn=978-0901714121|page=298}}

Fox died on 26 April 1856 at St Leonards-on-Sea.