recorded in a painting exhibited in the Royal Academy. Their daughter and only surviving child Kitty Acland married Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon (1772–1833). Lt.-Col. Stephen Strangways Digby Fox-Strangways (3 December 1751 – 12 March 1836); Lady Frances Muriel Fox-Strangways (August 1755 – 5 May 1814), who married Valentine Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl; Rev. Charles Redlynch Fox-Strangways (27 April 1761 – 4 November 1836), who married Jane Haines; Death and burial Fox died in September 1776, aged 72, and was succeeded by his son Henry Thomas Fox-Strangways, 2nd Earl of Ilchester. Fictitious depictions Stephen Fox appears as "Stephen Reynard", later Lord Ivell and Earl of Wessex, in the short story "The First Countess of Wessex" by Thomas Hardy, collected in A Group of Noble Dames. Arms The arms of the head of the Fox-Strangways family are blazoned Quarterly of four: 1st & 4th: Sable, two lions passant paly of six argent and gules (Strangways); 2nd & 3rd: Ermine, on a chevron azure three foxes' heads and necks erased or on a canton of the second a fleur-de-lys of the third (Fox). References External links Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990 Tillyard, Stella. "Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832" |- |- 1704 births 1776 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford 18th-century LGBT people Earls of Ilchester Peers of Great Britain created by George II Stephen English LGBT politicians Fox-Strangways, Stephen LGBT members of the Parliament of Great Britain British MPs 1722–1727 British MPs 1727–1734 British MPs 1734–1741 Fox-Strangways, Stephen LGBT peers