William Thomas Horner Fox-Strangways , diplomat. d.s.p. Venn's entry reads: STRANGWAYS, The Hon WILLIAM THOMAS HORNER FOX College: Entered: Born: 1795 Died: M.A. 1854, incorp. from Oxford. [2nd s. of Henry Thomas (Christ Church, Oxford, 1765), 2nd Earl of Ilchester (and Juliana, dau. of the Hon. and Very Rev. William Digby, Dean of Durham). B. May 7, 1795. School, Westminster.] Matric, from Christ Church, Oxford, June 1, 1813; B.A. (Oxford) 1816; Student, 1813-24; M.A. (Oxford) 1820. Attachâe at St Petersburg, 1819; at Constantinople, 1820; at the Hague, 1824; Secretary of Legation, Florence, 1825-8; at Naples, 1828-32; at Vienna, 1832-5; Under Foreign Secretary, 1835-40. Minister at Frankfort, 1840-9. Married, July 21, 1857, Sophia Penelope, dau. of Sir Robert Sheffield, Bart. Succeeded his half-brother Henry Stephen as 4th Earl of Ilchester, Jan. 3, 1858. Died, s.p., Jan. 10, 1865. Brother of the above. (Al. Oxon.; Al. West.; G.E.C.; Burke,P. and B.)
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