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By the death on Jan. 7, at the age of eighty-two years, of Sir Francis Fox, the engineering world loses one of its oldest and most distinguished representatives. Four years younger than his brother Sir Douglas Fox (1840—1921), Sir Francis Fox was the son of Sir Charles Fox (1810—1874), whose earliest engineering experience was gained under Ericsson at the famous Rainhill locomotive trials and under Robert Stephenson on his London and Birmingham Railway; and he also became known as the constructor of the Great Exhibition building of 1851. From about 1860 onwards, father and sons were responsible for railways, bridges, and tunnels in both hemispheres, among which may be mentioned the Mersey Tunnel, the Liverpool Overhead Railway, the Great Northern and City, and Charing Cross and Hampstead Tubes; railways in India, Argentina, Canada, and Africa, and also the great bridge over the Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River. The firm in its earliest days was Fox, Henderson and Co., but was changed first to Sir Charles Fox and Sons and then to Sir Douglas Fox and Partners.
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Sir Francis Fox. Nature 119, 93 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119093b0
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