Samuel Middleton Fox

Samuel Middleton Fox (1856 – 1941) was an amateur writer and dramatist, who also charmingly documented the life of the wealthy, Quaker Fox family of Falmouth during the latter years of the 19th century.

Samuel Middleton Fox was born 16 March 1856, the son of Rachel, daughter of Sarah and Alfred Fox, of Falmouth and Samuel Lindoe Fox (1830–1862), son of Maria Fox (born Middleton) and Samuel Fox (1794–1874) of Tottenham and of the Wellington branch of the Fox family. The two Quaker Fox family branches has separated in the 18th century.

He was the first of many grandsons of his maternal grandparents. His sister, Charlotte Maria was born in December 1857. His father died in November 1862 and his mother, Rachel Fox married again to Phillip Debell Tuckett, and they had three further sons, the first given the same name as his father, the second, was Percival Fox Tuckett and the third, Ivor Lloyd Tuckett.

S.M. Fox describes his happy childhood visits to his relations in Falmouth and legends about their family history in Two homes, by a grandson (privately printed, 1925).

The two homes belonged to his Falmouth grandparents, Sarah (born Lloyd) and Alfred Fox, who had a house in Falmouth called Woodhouse Place and a coastal residence and garden called Glendurgan (now a National Trust property). His grandfather's brothers also had houses and gardens nearby at Trebah and Penjerrick.

His aunt, Lucy Anna Hodgkin, objected strongly to his negative account of Uncle Joshua Fox of Tregedna, in Chapter 11 of Two homes.

He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1881 and LL.B in 1883. He was also admitted to the Inner Temple in 1880.

He married Adelaide Eliza Bell (13 September 1859 - 16 June 1922), daughter of James Bell and Mary Ann Spencer, of Fawe Park, Keswick, Cumberland, on 21 Jul 1887 at the Friends Meeting House in Westminster.

They had four children:

Adelaide Fox inherited Fawe Park, after her parents and brother's death and passed it to her son, Frederick in the 20th Century.

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