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{{Short description|British peer and philanthropist}}
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[[File:Railway Club at Oxford.jpg|thumb|[[Hypocrites' Club#Railway Club|Railway Club]] at Oxford, conceived by John Sutro, dominated by Harold Acton. Left to right, back: Henry Yorke, Roy Harrod, Henry Weymouth, David Plunket Greene, Harry Stavordale, Brian Howard. Middle row: Michael Rosse, John Sutro, Hugh Lygon, Harold Acton, Bryan Guinness, Patrick Balfour, Mark Ogilvie-Grant, Johnny Drury-Lowe; front: porters.]]
'''Edward Henry Charles James "Harry" Fox-Strangways, 7th Earl of Ilchester''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|GBE|DL|FRA}} (1 October 1905 &ndash; 21 August 1964) was a British [[Peerage|peer]] and [[philanthropy|philanthropist]].  He also held the [[subsidiary title]]s of Baron Strangways and Baron Ilchester and Stavordale.
==Biography==
He was educated at [[Eton College]] and [[Christ Church, Oxford]], where he was part of the [[Hypocrites' Club#Railway Club|Railway Club]], which included: [[Henry Vincent Yorke|Henry Yorke]], [[Roy Harrod]], [[Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath]], [[David Plunket Greene]], Fox-Strangways, [[Brian Howard (poet)|Brian Howard]], [[Michael Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse]], [[John Sutro]], [[Hugh Lygon]], [[Harold Acton]], [[Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne]], [[Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross]], [[Mark Ogilvie-Grant]], [[John Drury-Lowe]].<ref name="Lancaster">{{cite book|last1=Lancaster|first1=Marie-Jaqueline|title=Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure|date=2005|publisher=Timewell Press|page=122|isbn=9781857252118|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7IVRYLb2wcAC&pg=PA122|accessdate=20 January 2018}}</ref>
He used the first name "Harry" and served as a [[Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset]] in 1957.<ref>''Burke's Peerage'' (2003) volume 2, page 2026, quoted in [http://www.thepeerage.com/p1728.htm#i17272/ The Peerage]</ref>
==Family==
He married Helen Elizabeth Ward, granddaughter of [[William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley]], on 27 April 1931. They had three children:
* Lady Theresa Jane Fox-Strangways (12 August 1932 - 1989), married [[Simon Monckton-Arundell, 9th Viscount Galway]]
* Giles Henry Holland Fox-Strangways (7 May 1934 - 2 September 1947, accidental death)
* Charles Stephen Fox-Strangways (6 May 1938 - 8 July 1958, killed while on emergency military operations in [[Cyprus]])
With no surviving male issue, he was succeeded in the Earldom of Ilchester by [[Walter Angelo Fox-Strangways, 8th Earl of Ilchester|Walter Angelo Fox-Strangways]], a descendant of the 1st Earl of Ilchester and Harry's fifth cousin, once removed, but his family seat [[Melbury House]] and large estates were inherited by his daughter Theresa, Viscountess Galway.
==Arms==
[[File:Fox-StrangwaysArms.png|thumb|180px|Arms of Fox-Strangways]]
The arms of the head of the Fox-Strangways family are [[blazon]]ed ''Quarterly of four: 1st & 4th: Sable, two lions passant paly of six argent and gules'' (Strangways); ''2nd & 3rd: Ermine, on a chevron azure three foxes' heads and necks erased or on a canton of the second a fleur-de-lys of the third'' (Fox).<ref name=Debrett>“Earl of Ilchester” in Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), ''Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage'' (Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968), p. 607</ref>
==References==
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*[http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp68079/edward-henry-charles-james-fox-strangways-7th-earl-of-ilchester/National Portrait Gallery]
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