Sir Stephen Fox

I have seen it stated in some biographical dictionary, that Sir Stephen Fox was a younger brother of "John Fox, Esq.," who was a devoted Royalist at the time of the great Rebellion, and fought at the battle of Worcester, and after the Restoration was Clerk of the Acatry, in the household of Charles the Second. Mr. Suckling, in his *History of Suffolk*, claims for a family some time seated at Stradbrook, in that county, a consanguinity with the descendants of Sir Stephen. On an altar-tomb in Stadbrook churchyard are inscribed notices of many members of this family, but without dates. One is rat…