a thankful soul the humble and fully-grateful founder gives back what is received this how unimportant monument of this school and place for maintaining the poor restored in the Year of Salvation 1681. For what are riches useful to you, you will bring together a guest/stranger, what thou hast given alone shall be eternal riches unto thee" (last sentence from Epigrams of Martial, XLII (solas quas dederis semper habebis opes)) A contribution of £13,000 towards the building of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, designed by Sir Christopher Wren. In 1698, Fox built Manor Farm House in Chiswick, to replace the previous manor house on Chiswick Mall (which is shown on a map in Warwick Draper’s book). It was southeast of Chiswick House, roughly where Edensor Gardens are today. The map names it "Sir Stephen Fox’s 1st house". Fox was the lord of Chiswick’s prebendal manor at the time. The house survived until 1896 when it was demolished to build Wilton Avenue. Some of the wall of the farm exists today as garden walls in Manor Alley. Almost next door to it on the Sulhamstead Estate is a modern block of flats called Stephen Fox House. Death and burial Fox died on 28 October 1716, aged 89, at his house in Chiswick. He was buried in the Church he rebuilt at Farley, where survives his mural monument. He left assets with an estimated value of over £174,000. Further reading Ferris, John. P., biography of "Fox, Stephen (1627–1716), of Farley, Wilts. and Whitehall", published in History of Parliament, House of Commons 1660–1690, ed. B.D. Henning, 1983 Hayton, D. W., biography of "Fox, Sir Stephen (1627–1716), of Whitehall, Westminster; Chiswick, Mdx.; and Redlynch, Som", published in History of Parliament: House of Commons 1690–1715, ed. D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks, S. Handley, 2002 Clay, Christopher, Public Finance and Private Wealth: The Career of Sir Stephen Fox, 1627–1716, Oxford, 1978. Jeffery, Sally, The Flower of all the Private Gentlemens' Palaces in England: Sir Stephen Fox's "Extraordinary Fine" Garden at Chiswick, published in Garden History, Vol.32, 2004 References Sources Sir Egerton Brydges, Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical (1812) pp. 529–538 External links 1627 births 1716 deaths British MPs 1713–1715 Knights Bachelor Paymasters of the Forces Stephen Cavaliers English MPs 1661–1679 English MPs 1679 English MPs 1685–1687 English MPs 1690–1695 English MPs 1695–1698 English MPs 1698–1700 English MPs 1701 English MPs 1701–1702 Members of the Parliament