Born at Academy Street, Warrington, 1 August 1873, the eldest son of Edward Austin Fox, LRCPEd, and his wife, *née* Green. He was educated at the Warrington Grammar School, Stonyhurst College, and Owen's College, Manchester. He gained second class honours in physiology at the London University BSc examination in 1893, and then entered St Bartholomew's Hospital as a medical student. He was for a time clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, served as house surgeon at the Royal Hospital, Salford, at the Manchester Southern Hospital for Women and Children, and at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. In 1909 he joined his father in partnership at Warrington, having already been elected surgeon to the Warrington Infirmary in 1907. In 1913 he was appointed surgeon to the newly formed ophthalmic department at the Infirmary, where he also acted as radiologist from 1913 until his death. Being too old for active service during the war of 1914-18 he acted as surgeon to the Lord Derby War Hospital, the Whitecross Military Hospital, and the Raddon Court Red Cross Hospital, Warrington. Fox married Elizabeth, second daughter of William Owen, FRIBA, in June 1900. She survived him for seven months, with three sons and a daughter. The eldest son, Dr E Owen Fox, MB Cambridge, was admitted MRCS in 1926. Fox died on 31 March, and Mrs Fox on 6 November 1938. Fox was described as "a devout teetotaller".