Foxite Whigs

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The Foxite Whigs were a late 18th-century British political faction led by Charles James Fox, known for their advocacy of parliamentary reform, civil liberties, and opposition to royal influence and government authoritarianism.

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British Whig Party 3
Whig 2
Court Whigs 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British Whig faction
political faction
activeIn House of Commons of Great Britain
associatedWith Portland Whigs
Rockingham Whigs
country Kingdom of Great Britain
favored broader parliamentary representation
reform of rotten boroughs
followedBy early 19th-century reform Whigs
hasNotableMember Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
Charles James Fox
Francis Burdett
George Tierney
Henry Grattan
James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard FitzPatrick
Samuel Whitbread
Thomas Erskine
hasPart Westminster Assembly
surface form: Westminster reformers
historicalContext French Revolutionary Wars
aftermath of the American War of Independence
historicalPeriod Georgian era
ideology civil liberties
opposition to government authoritarianism
opposition to royal influence
parliamentary reform
leader Charles James Fox
namedAfter Charles James Fox
opposedTo King George III's personal influence
High Tories
surface form: Pittite Tories

William Pitt the Younger
repressive legislation during the 1790s
restrictions on public meetings
suspension of habeas corpus
parliamentaryGroupIn Parliament of Great Britain
partOf British Whig Party
surface form: Whig Party (Great Britain)
politicalAlignment liberal Whiggism
position opposition faction
precededBy Rockingham Whigs
startTime late 18th century
supported American colonists in the American War of Independence
abolitionist causes
limitation of executive power
negotiated peace with revolutionary France
reduction of crown patronage
religious toleration

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Rockingham Whig influenced Foxite Whigs
British Whig political thought associatedWith Foxite Whigs
this entity surface form: British Whig Party
Life of Charles James Fox workSubject Foxite Whigs
this entity surface form: British Whig Party
Delaval family politicalAffiliation Foxite Whigs
this entity surface form: British Whig Party
Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents politicalAlignment Foxite Whigs
this entity surface form: Whig
Edward Russell parliamentaryFaction Foxite Whigs
this entity surface form: Court Whigs