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Dr. Wilfrid Stephen Fox                         1875-1962
Wilfrid was born on 2 March 1875, the son of Henry Frederick Fox and Ellen Maria ?, at Bromborough, Cheshire. His father was a merchant who marketed in South America. His mother was born in Charleston, South Carolina, (a British Subject).
He was educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A. 1896; M.A. 1901; B.C. and M.D. 1905. At St George's Hospital, London. M.R.C.S.; M.R.C.P., 1904. F.R.C.P., 1923. Clinical Assistant, House Surgeon and House Physician, St George's Hospital. Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (driver, British Red Cross Ambulance; Capt., R.A.M.C., 1915). Assistant and Physician, Dreadnought Hospital for Seamen, Greenwich. Consulting Physician for Diseases of the Skin, St George's Hospital and St John's Hospital, Leicester Square.

Nereida Florence N. Petrie               1869-1945
Nereida was born about 1869, at sea, the daughter of George Petrie and Penelope Mary Dartnell.
I have identified the following children.
(A Son) No Date      
(A Daughter) No Date      
Birth of Parents
Wilfrid Stephen Fox b: abt 1875                Bromborough, Cheshire       1875 2Q Wirral 8a 458
son of Henry Frederick Fox and Ellen Maria ?, South American Merchant

Nereida Florence N. Petrie b: abt 1869               At Sea
daughter of George Petrie and Penelope Mary Dartnell

Marriage
abt 1900
Wilfrid Stephen Fox
Nereida Florence N. Petrie 		      1900 1Q Kensington 1a 239

1901 Census RG13-19 1 April 1901 Kensington, London
6 Eldon Road
Wilfrid Fox
Nereida (Wife)
Plus 2 Servants 		Age 26
Age 31 		Medical Student Bromborough
Peru		 Cheshire
(Brit. Subject)		 abt 1875
abt 1869

Death
Nereida Florence N. (Petrie) Fox Died abt 1945, Age 75,       1945 1Q Surrey S.W. 2a 731
 

Death
Wilfrid Stephen Fox Died 22 May 1962, Age 87,       1962 2Q Surrey S.W. 5g 927
Burial: at Eashing Cemetery, Godalming


The Times, Thursday, May 24, 1962                         DEATHS
  FOX - On May 22nd, 1962, at Winkworth Farm, Hascombe, WILFRID STEPHEN FOX, F.R.C.P., V.M.H..   Funeral service Busbridge Parish Church, Godalming at 2.30 p.m., on Friday, 25th, followed by burial at Eashing Cemetery, Godalming.   Flowers to G. W. Feltham Ltd., Godalming.

The Times, Thursday, May 24, 1962                 OBITUARIES
DR. WILFRID FOX
  Dr. Wilfrid Stephen Fox, FRCP, formerly consulting physician for diseases of the skin at St. George's Hospital and St. John's Hospital, Leicester Square, died at his home, Winkworth Farm, in Surrey on Tuesday.
  The son of H. F. Fox of Bromborough, Cheshire, he was educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge. He became LRCP (London) in 1902 and FRCP in 1923.
  Fox, who had retired, had previously been assistant physician to the skin department of the Seamen's Hospital Greenwich.
  In 1952 he gave to the National Trust the Winkworth arboretum, about 60 acres of hillside planted with trees and flowering shrubs of great botanical interest.
  Fox married in 1900 and had a son and a daughter.
The Times, Thursday, May 31, 1962                 OBITUARIES
DR. WILFRID FOX
  A friend writes:
  Dr. Wilfrid Fox was a great personality.   The versatility of his interests was unusual and the breadth of his knowledge quite exceptional.
  After rising to prominence in the medical profession he embarked on a business career, joining Duncan Fox & Co. Ltd., the firm of general merchants, of which his was the principal founder in 1843.
  Although not trained for business Dr. Fox's keen intelligence and perceptive mind enabled him to play a prominent part in the development of the business.   He served as executive director from 1928 until his retirement in 1949, and for the last 10 years of this period he filled with distinction the office of chairman of the company.
  He was a member of the London board of the Royal Insurance Company from 1940 to the day of his death, and he was for many years a director of J. & A. Churchill Limited.
  Notwithstanding the demanding nature of his business career he somehow managed to find time for much public service, particularly in connexion with the Red Cross, and in the realms of horticulture.   Already at an age when most of us feel like sitting back, he in 1940 took a Red Cross Unit to France.   He was a man with a great understanding of human problems, ever ready to lend a helping hand.   He will be sadly missed, both here and in South America, by all who were privileged to know him.