General Henry Edward Fox (4 March 1755 – 18 July 1811) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Minorca and governor of Gibraltar.
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Family
He was a son of Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland and Lady Caroline Lennox (1723–1774), and a younger brother of the politician Charles James Fox (1749–1806). His mother's father was Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond (1701–1750), an illegitimate grandson of King Charles II.
Life
He attended Westminster School before being commissioned as a cornet in the 1st King's Dragoon Guards in 1770. Soon after that he spent a year's leave at the military academy at Strasbourg. After his return he rose to lieutenant (1773) then captain (1774).