Henry Richard Vassall Fox, Lord Holland: politician, local landowner and ‘the planter, who made manful war on the slave trade’

Henry Richard Vassall Fox, Lord Holland: politician, local landowner and ‘the planter, who made manful war on the slave trade’ An illustrated talk by Dr Barry Dackombe.

The trees in the Alameda were planted in the early 1820s and were gifted to the town in 1827 by Henry Fox, the 3rd Lord (Baron) Holland (1773-1840), who on the death of the 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory in 1818 made Ampthill Park his seat.