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Rh Mr Fox was born in India, but had the misfortune to lose his father, who, after a brief but devoted service in the field and a very short period as assistant secretary to the Rev. Henry Venn, the famous Hon. Secretary of the C.M.S., died in 1848. Mr Fox was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. and subsequently proceeded to his M.A. degree. After three years' preparation for the Bar, he was led to change his profession and was ordained to the curacy of St Ebbe's, Oxford. Twenty-two more years of parochial ministry in London and Durham followed, and he was appointed Hon. Secretary of the C.M.S. in 1895. In several visits which Mr Fox paid to the Society's missions in India, Palestine and Egypt, he had the advantage of gaining information and studying the condition of missions on the spot.

It is interesting also to recall the fact that it was during Mr Fox's tenure of the living of St Nicholas, Durham, that there was associated with him as curate a gentleman who has since become one of the best known of the missionary Bishops of the Church. Alfred R. Tucker, the son and brother of distinguished Lake artists, and himself already winning a name in the same profession, was drawn by an unconquerable love for his fellow-men to devote himself to the ministry of the Church. After taking his degree at Christ Church, Oxford, he worked as a curate in the slums of Bristol, and