Levi Fox
| Levi Fox | |
|---|---|
| Born |
28 August 1914 England |
| Died | 3 September 2006 (aged 92) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Oriel College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Archivist for the city of Coventry, Director of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, local historian, author |
| Spouse(s) | Jane |
| Children | 3 |
Dr. Levi Fox OBE, DL, MA, FSA, FRHistS, FRSL (28 August 1914 – 3 September 2006), was the son of a Leicestershire smallholder. He became Archivist for the city of Coventry and then Director of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and was a conservationist, local historian, and author.
After attending Ashby-de-la-Zouch Grammar School where he became head boy, Fox was a Bryce research student in Oriel College, Oxford and gained a first class Honours degree in History. He then spent some time doing research at the University of Manchester before being appointed the first city archivist for Coventry.
Declared unfit for war service, Fox was appointed Director of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (SBT) in 1945 and built a loyal team around him.
The SBT can lay claim to be the oldest conservation society in Britain. Under Fox's direction many activities of the Trust, including its education work, records office, museums and gardens departments, and its conservation activities, developed and expanded greatly; and he saw the centre at Stratford-upon-Avon grow from a local organisation of some national significance into a body of international repute. The SBT is entirely dependent on its income from visitors to the Shakespeare properties and investments, and, under Fox it acquired some important properties. These include the land around Anne Hathaway's cottage and Hall's Croft, the home of Shakespeare's daughter and her husband, John Hall; as well as Glebe Farm at Wilmcote, next to the supposed childhood home of Shakespeare's mother (Mary Arden), when it was threatened by developers in 1968.
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