[2][3] He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, where he started a long-term friendship with Henry Acland.

In 1854 he moved to London, where he studied and worked at the College of Chemistry and St. George's Hospital, graduating as M.B.

In parallel, he taught medicine and pathological anatomy at the Bristol medical school and Clifton College.

[4] Fox died in Bristol in 1902 due to a long illness.

The annual Long Fox lecture at University College, Bristol, was established in his honour.