Educated at University College, London, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He practised for the long period of forty-six years in the small country village of Broughton, near Winchester. He was a most successful and popular practitioner and laboured in his vocation with no ordinary zeal. He was at one time Medical Officer to three districts belonging to three separate Unions, and it was no uncommon thing for him and his assistants to drive sixty or seventy miles while accomplishing their day's work. He was fearless in his support of professional rights, and as such was called upon by his colleagues to be President of the Salisbury Medical Society, a post which he occupied for some time. He had been ailing for some years before his death, and was much shaken by the news of the sudden decease in Paris of his son, Dr Tilbury Fox, the well-known dermatologist, which occurred on June 7th, 1879. Fox himself died almost immediately afterwards on June 17th, 1879. He was survived by his widow and five out of an original family of eleven children. Of these, three were distinguished in medicine - namely Tilbury, above-mentioned; Edward, who practised with his father at Broughton after a distinguished career at the University of London; and Dr T Colcott Fox, who succeeded his brother Tilbury in his dermatological practice. Fox was singularly handsome when in his prime, and endowed with a rich fund of humour which made him the delight of all classes of patients. His photograph is in the Fellows' Album.