Fox, never acknowledged as the leader of a faction of the Whigs from 1784, first served as the government Leader of the House of Commons in 1782, and remained in opposition after 1794.
Charles James Fox (24 January 1749  13 September 1806), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Leader of the House of Commons 
