Robin Fox family

Fox family
Current region
England
Place of origin
United Kingdom
Founder
Members

The Fox family is a family with several members in acting and related professions over a number of generations. Robin Fox (1913–1971), an actor and theatrical agent, and his wife Angela, neé Worthington (1912-2000), a comedienne, had three sons: the actors Edward and James, and Robert, who became a theatrical agent. Their grandchildren include the actors Emilia, Freddie, Jack, Laurence, and Lydia Fox.

Family origin

Robin Fox was born in the parish of St George Hanover Square, Westminster, the son of Hilda Louise (Alcock), an actress, and Arthur William Fox. Robin Fox was the grandson of industrialist, engineer, and philanthropist Samson Fox.

Fox was related to the Hanbury and Neilson acting dynasty through his mother, whose sister was the stage actress Lily Hanbury. Their first cousin Julia Neilson was married to the actor Fred Terry, brother of the late nineteenth-century star Ellen Terry.[1] Altogether, five of Hilda and Lily Hanbury's first cousins were actors in Victorian and Edwardian theatre.[1]

Angela Worthington's father was English playwright Frederick Lonsdale and her sister was Felicity Shaw, who wrote mystery novels under the pseudonym Anne Morice.[2] Noël Coward's 1935 song "Mrs. Worthington", with its refrain "Don't put your daughter on the stage, Mrs. Worthington", was allegedly written about her and her mother, the socialite Muriel Rose "Lucy Glitters" Worthington.[3] Angela later became a comedienne.[4]

Arms

Coat of arms of Fox of Grove House
Notes
The crescent denotes that Wordsworth is a second son.
Crest
Upon a wreath of the colours, a representation of a corrugated boiler-flue as in the arms, and thereupon a fox Gules, resting the dexter paw upon a trefoil slipped Vert.
Escutcheon
Argent, a representation of a corrugated boiler-flue fesseways Proper, between two foxes courant Gules, each holding in their mouths a trefoil slipped Vert.[5]
Motto
Forti nihil difficile


References

  1. 1 2 "Emilia Fox". Who Do You Think You Are?. Series 8. Episode 5. 7 September 2011. BBC One.
  2. ↑ "Anne Morice". Dean Street Press. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  3. ↑ "Encounters with Stars of the Theatrical Kind (Part 4) - Theatre Heritage Australia". theatreheritage.org.au. Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  4. ↑ "SCREEN STARS MOURN MUM". The Argus. 9 December 1999. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  5. ↑ Armorial families : a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour (1905).

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