Walter Richard Fox
Walter Richard Fox (1862-1951) of Joyce and Fox and of W. R. Fox Co
1862 August 04th. Born at Heather, Leics., the son of Richard Fox, a farmer, and his wife Catherine Kirkman
1888 Married at Leicester to Ada Jane Smart and had two daughters and one son
1890 Birth of son Eric Smart Fox
1911 Residing at 38 Queens Road, Leicester: Walter Richard Fox (age 48 born Heather), Wholesale Grocer and Manufacturing Confectioner. With his wife Ada Jane Fox
1939 Residing at Fair Lawn, Leicester Road, Market Harborough, Wholesale Grocer and Manufacturing Confectioner (Retired). With Ada J. Fox.[1]
1951 September 30th. Died. 'Mr. Walter Richard Fox, of Fairlawn, Great Bowden, near Market Harborough, Leics., retired wholesale grocer and manufacturing confectioner, founder of W. R. Fox Co. Ltd., a former director of Fox's ‘Glacier Mints Ltd., Leicester, and a member of the Quorn Hunt, who rode to hounds until he was 75 years of age, and who died on September 30, aged 89 years.'[2]