William Johnson Fox

William Johnson Fox (1786–1864), born in Suffolk, was a Unitarian preacher, journalist and reforming politician. He was a radical minister at Chichester and later at Finsbury Chapel in London, wrote for the periodicals, and was a noted orator in the cause of reform.

A memorial edition of his works appeared in twelve volumes in 1868. The poems here are taken from Edmund Clarence Stedman’s A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895 (1895).