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Bertram Fox was born in East Kirkby, Nottinghamshire in 1876. He would go on to become an important lecturer on the subject of temperance and a significant figure in the local temperance movement, which was particularly strong in the Hull area. He lived at 429 Spring Bank West, Hull and later at 2 Plantation Drive, Anlaby Park. Bertram was married twice. His first wife, Frances Dalton, who he married in 1907, died in 1926. She had a son, Sidney Dalton, whom became Bertram's stepson. In 1928 Bertram married again, at All Saints Church, this time to Margaret Hatfield of Hull.

Fox was initially sent to Cardiff for the United Kingdom Alliance (for the Suppression of the Traffic in all Intoxicating Liquors), before later returning to Hull in 1906 as District Superintendent. He was known as a vigorous speaker and he toured extensively around the UK in the 1920s. He was variously the General Secretary of Citizens’ Committee to Conduct a Campaign in Support of the Government Licensing Bill, Honorary Convenor of the Hull United Temperance Board, local secretary for the Northern Association of Official Temperance Advocates, organiser for the Hull District of the Union of Democratic Control and District Superintendent for the Scottish Bill and Temperance Association based in Aberdeen. Fox was also a Baptist preacher, chairman of the local Hull and District Band of Hope and chairman of the League's National Conference when it came to Hull in 1924.

Prior to the outbreak of World War II, Bertram Fox ran a motor and cycle factor business in Mytongate, Hull. He then went on to work in the Food Office at Bevin House until he retired aged 73. He died in 1963, aged 87.

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Financial records; diary and personal papers; minutes of committees; correspondence; leaflets, circulars and promotional material relating to temperance campaigns; photographs.