Caroline Fox

Caroline Fox (24 May 1819 – 12 January 1871) was an English diarist and correspondent from Cornwall. Her diary records memories of several notable people, including John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle.
Biography.
Caroline Fox was born 24 May 1819 at Penjerrick, a large house near Falmouth, as one of five children of Robert Were Fox FRS, an inventor, from the influential Fox family of Falmouth and his wife, Maria Barclay. Both were Quakers. She was the younger sister of Barclay Fox, also a diarist, and of Anna Maria Fox.
Caroline's well-known diaries record memories of distinguished people such as John Stuart Mill, John Sterling and Thomas Carlyle. Selections from her diary and letters (1835–1871) appeared as "Memories of Old Friends: Caroline Fox of Penjerrick, Cornwall". A selection from the Victorian edition appeared in 1972.
Caroline Fox and her sister Anna Maria helped to found the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society in Falmouth.
Caroline Fox died on 12 January 1871 and was buried in the Quaker Burial Ground at Budock.