About Charles Foxe
Lived 1510 – 1590 (aged 79–80). Charles Foxe was a politician.
Charles Foxe (by 1516 – December 1590), of Bromfield, Shropshire and the Inner Temple, London, was an English politician.
Family Foxe was the second of six sons of Ludlow MP, William Foxe. His brother, Edmund Foxe, also represented the constituency. Foxe married Elizabeth Crosby, by whom he had two sons and three daughters. His second marriage was to Catherine Leighton, daughter of Sir Edward Leighton of Shropshire, with whom he had three sons. Foxe also had an illegitimate son by an unknown mother.
Career He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Ludlow in 1539, 1542, 1547 and March 1553, and for Much Wenlock in 1563.
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Charles Foxe died in 1590.
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