Wilson Fox

In 1859, he married Miss Emily Doyle, and settled at Newcastle-under-Lyme, where he became physician to the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary.

He was a man of great benevolence, and was in the habit of placing his house at Rydal at the disposal of the Bishop of Bedford during the summer months for the use of invalided East-end clergymen and their families.

His cases were thoroughly studied, with special attention to the mental and emotional state of his patients, in whom he inspired great confidence.

He was the first physician to save life in cases of rheumatic fever where the temperature was excessively high, by placing the patient in baths of iced water.

His lectures were highly valued by the students, and the characteristic of his teaching was the ability with which the facts of pathology were made the basis of practical diagnosis and treatment.

In 1874 he married Evelyn, daughter of Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, and widow of Captain Burgoyne, who was capsized off Cape Finisterre during a gale on 7 September 1870.