I am Charles James Fox, I was a British Whig politician and statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. I was the arch-rival of the Tory politician William Pitt the Younger; his father Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, a leading Whig of my day, had similarly been the great rival of Pitt's famous father, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham ("Pitt the Elder").