Ebenezer Fox (died 1886), was an English journalist who later settled in Australia and New Zealand.
Fox was born in England and practised his profession in the north until he had nearly attained middle age.
For several years he was a chief reporter on the ‘Manchester Guardian.’ His account of the great floods at Holmfirth in 1852 was widely quoted.
In 1862 he went to Dunedin and joined the staff of the ‘Otago Daily Times,’ is associated with Sir Julius Vogel and B. L. Farjeon, the novelist.
In the columns of The New Zealand Times Fox wrote a series of articles on the denudation of the forests, which attracted much attention.