The statue of Charles James Fox stands at the north end of Bloomsbury Square in the London borough of Camden.

Rarely holding office, he championed a range of liberal causes, including American independence, the French Revolution, Catholic Emancipation and the abolition of slavery.

[2] His career has been described as of "almost unrelieved failure"[3] but his generosity of mind, his famed charm and his "genius for friendship"[3] left his many friends and admirers desolate at his death.

[6] He is seated, reputedly as his friends considered that a realistic portrayal of a standing Fox would have appeared undignified, due to his corpulence.

[1] It was promoted to a Grade II* listing on 23 August 2008, UNESCO's International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition,[9] though the statue does not explicitly reference Fox's championing of the abolitionist cause.