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George Fox is said to have obtained £100,000 by his marriage to the heiress of a former M.P. for York, together with estates, mostly in Yorkshire, worth £7,000 a year. Returned as a Tory for Hindon in 1734, after contesting it unsuccessfully in 1727, he voted against the Government. He did not stand in 1741 and was defeated at a by-election for Yorkshire in 1742, but later in the same year he was returned unopposed for York, continuing to vote with the Opposition. He died 27 Feb. 1773, aged 76.
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