Charlotte Milligan Fox, Collector of Folk Music, Is Born in Omagh, Co. Tyrone

Charlotte Olivia Milligan Fox (17 March 1864 – 25 March 1916) was an Irish composer, folk music collector and writer.

Fox was a prolific composer of songs, with some which being based on Irish traditional songs. Both her sisters provided words for some of them. She also composed an orchestral score for The Last Feast of the Fianna by Alice Milligan.

In 1904, Fox co-founded with Alfred Perceval Graves the Irish Folk Song Society of London, an offshoot of the Folk Song Society formed in 1898.[1] Its aim was to collect and publish Irish airs and ballads, in addition to holding lectures and concerts on the subject. In 1904, the President of the Society was the Earl of Shaftesbury and the Vice-Presidents included Patrick Weston Joyce, Francis Joseph Bigger, W. H. Grattan Flood, Alfred Perceval Graves, Rev. Richard Henebry and Lady Waterford. Committee members included Herbert Hughes and Edith Wheeler. The officers for 1905 had a publication committee comprising Claude Aveling, Charlotte Milligan Fox, Herbert Hughes, Rev. Michael Moloney and John Todhunter as chairman. And it established a journal the Journal of the Irish folk Song Society. The rules of the society are collected in volume 4 of the journal.