Papers of Adam Fox

Collection

How to
request

Only individual files or items can be requested not entire collections, series, or sub-series

Use the Navigate this collection tree to find the materials you wish to request for viewing in a reading room, at file or item level, then click the Request this button on those pages.

Help

The papers comprise: literary manuscripts, 1917-1972; academic papers, c.1930-1970 and religious writings, 1942-1970.

Dates

Creation: 1917-1977

Extent

1.3 Linear metres (8 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Preferred Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. 17028/1/1].

Please see our help page for further guidance on citing archives and manuscripts.

Full range of shelfmarks:

MSS. 17028/1-8

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 17028

Additional Description

Abstract

Literary manuscripts, academic papers and religious writings of Adam Fox (1883-1977), Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, 1938-1943, and Canon of Westminster, 1942-1963.

Biographical / Historical

Adam Fox and his twin sister, Eve, were born on 15 July 1883. He was educated at Winchester College and University College, Oxford, graduating in 1906. In the same year he became assistant master at Lancing College, West Sussex and took Holy Orders in 1911. He was Warden of Radley College, Oxfordshire, 1918-1924, and assistant master at Bishops Diocesan College, Rondebosch in South Africa, 1925-1929. He returned to Oxford in 1929 as a Fellow of Magdalen College, and was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1938: a position he held for five years. He was a Canon of Westminster, 1942-1963. He did not marry and died 17 January 1977.