Sir John Marcus Fox MBE (11 June 1927 – 16 March 2002) was a British Conservative Party politician.

John Marcus Fox was born at the Maternity Home, Bradford Road, Batley, Yorkshire, on Saturday, 11 June 1927.

[1] Fox served in the Duke of Wellington's Regiment as a Lieutenant, a detail which he was sometimes known to mention in after-dinner speeches.

[1] After Fox's election to parliament as the MP for Shipley, he served as a whip under Edward Heath, and then was a junior minister under Margaret Thatcher.

[7] Fox was in poor health in the last years of his life, suffering from Alzheimer's disease as well as having multiple strokes.