Charles Fox (1660–1713) Charles Fox (1660–1713) Charles Fox (2 January 1660 – 21 September 1713) was an English politician. Fox was born at Brussels as the third son of Sir Stephen Fox just before the Restoration, named after Charles II who acted as his godfather, and naturalized in 1670. Both his elder brothers were then dead, and in 1676 he was sent on a tour of the Continent under the charge of Dr. Younger, later Dean of Salisbury. On his return he was married in 1679 to Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Trollope, 2nd Baronet; they had no children. The Water
Irish Convention (1660) Irish Convention (1660) The Irish Convention sat 7 February, 2 March and 27 May 1660, and again January 1661. It sought to restore the monarchy, episcopacy and also the right for the King's Irish Parliament to tax and legislate for itself, rejecting claims of legislative supremacy by the King's English Parliament. Sir Charles Coote was a central figure in the Convention. In May 1660 the Convention asked the King of Ireland to "call a parliament consisting of Protestant peers and commons. It was also requested that the Church of Ireland should again be established" The Convention Parliament was dissolved by