Foxite

Foxite was a late 18th-century British political label for Whig followers of Charles James Fox.

After the death of Fox, his faction was led by Viscount Howick, who, in 1807, became Earl Grey by being removed to the House of Lords.

There was a crisis of Whig leadership in the House of Commons, as no obvious chief had emerged.

Grenville and Grey jointly proposed George Ponsonby as leader in the Commons.

In effect, the Foxites had ceased to be a distinct group, having merged into the Grenvillites as part of a significantly more cohesive party of Whigs.