Born in Catford and educated at Cambridge University and Charing Cross Hospital where he graduated in medicine in 1961. He married Margaret Bull, a New Zealander, in London, and then moved to Manaia, Taranaki, New Zealand in 1963 where he quickly established his practice. Fox is best known in New Zealand as a Lepidopterist but he did become interested in Coleoptera later in life and did extensive collecting particularly in the Taranaki (then Mount Egmont) National Park. There is an obituary in New Zealand Entomologist, 10, 1987, p.154 (I am grateful to Eric Gowing Scopes for bringing this to my attention). (MD 12/02)
Dates
1936 - 1 February 1986