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Henry

Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland of Holland, and 3rd Baron Holland of Foxley PC (21

November 1773 – 22 October 1840), was an English politician and a major the early 19th century. A grandson of Henry Fox, 1st Baron

Holland, and nephew of Charles

James Fox, he served as Lord Privy Seal between 1806 and 1807 in the Ministry of All the

Talents headed by Lord

Grenville and as Chancellor

of the Duchy of Lancaster between 1830 and 1834 and again

between 1835 and his death in 1840 in the Whig administrations of Lord Grey and Lord

Melbourne. Holland was born at Winterslow House, Wiltshire, the son of Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron

Holland (1745–1774), and Lady Mary FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory, and Lady Evelyn, daughter

of John Leveson-Gower, 1st

Earl Gower. His paternal grandparents were Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, and Lady Caroline Lennox,

the eldest of the famous Lennox

sisters and a great-granddaughter (through an illegitimate

line) of King Charles II. He

succeeded in the barony in December 1774, aged one, on the early death of his

father, while his mother died shortly before his fifth birthday. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where

he became the friend of George Canning and John Hookham Frere. Lord

Holland's uncle was the great Whig orator Charles James Fox, and he remained steadily loyal to the Whig

party. On a visit to Paris in 1791, Holland became acquainted took his seat in the House of Lords on 5 October 1796. According to the 1911 edition

of the Encyclopædia Britannica he for a while

"almost... constituted the Whig party in the upper house". He was

appointed to negotiate a treaty with

American envoys James Monroe and William Pinkney, was admitted to the Privy

Council on 27 August 1806, and on 15 October entered the Ministry of All the

Talents led by Lord

Grenville as Lord Privy Seal, retiring with the rest of his colleagues

in March 1807.

Holland led the opposition to the Regency Bill in 1811, and he attacked

the orders in council and other strong measures of the government taken to

counteract Napoleon's Berlin Decrees. He denounced

the treaty of 1813 with Sweden which bound Britain to consent to the forcible

union of Norway, and he resisted the bill of 1816 for confining Napoleon

in Saint Helena. He was Chancellor

of the Duchy of Lancaster between 1830 and 1834 and 1835 and 1840 in the cabinets of Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne, and he was still in office when he died in

October 1840. With the Slave Compensation Act

1837 in the aftermath of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833,

the government paid compensation for slavery not to enslaved people but to

slaveholders. Lord Holland was compensated under three awards

for slaves on his estates in Jamaica, which had come to him through his wife,

Elizabeth Webster (née Vassall).

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