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Henry Wilson-Fox FRGS (18 August 1863 – 22 November 1921) was an English lawyer, journalist, tennis player, and businessman. He built his career in Rhodesia, where he became an associate of Cecil Rhodes, manager of the British South Africa Company, and an advocate of Rhodes's imperialist ideals.〔〔 In 1916 Wilson-Fox was a founder of the Empire Resources Development Committee, which promoted the idea of state-managed commercial development of the British Empire. He was elected in 1917 as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamworth. In the House of Commons, he focused on finance and imperial development until his death in 1921. == Early life and family == The son of Wilson Fox, physician to Queen Victoria, he was educated at Charterhouse, Marlborough College, University College London and Trinity College, Cambridge.〔 Wilson-Fox was an exhibitioner and scholar at Trinity,〔 where he graduated with a BA in natural sciences.〔 He represented Cambridge University at lawn tennis in 1885–86, and thereafter made tennis and golf his main recreations.〔 Wilson-Fox was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1888,〔 having been an equity scholar.〔 In 1898 he married the Hon. Eleanor Birch Sclater-Booth, daughter of the 1st Baron Basing.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Wilson-Fox」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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