Adam Fox

Adam Fox (15 July 1883 – 17 January 1977), Canon, was the Dean of Divinity at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was one of the first members of the literary group "Inklings". He was Oxford Professor of Poetry and later he became Canon of Westminster Abbey. He was also warden of Radley College.

Education and academic career

He and his twin sister Eve were born to a sea captain and his wife. He then taught at Diocesan College, Rondebosch, South Africa until 1929, when he returned to England as Dean of Divinity of Magdalen College, Oxford until 1942; between 1938 and 1942 he was Oxford Professor of Poetry.

The (UK) Times of 19 Jan 1977 (issue No. 59911) carries a detailed obituary.

Publications Fox’s works include; Old King Coel (1937)

Plato for Pleasure (1945)

Life of Dean Inge (1960)

The Pictorial History of Westminster Abbey (Pitkin Pictorials, London, 1966) Sacred and Secular (editor) (1975)