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6/15/2025, 7:37:51 PM
Toby Fox was born and raised in Manchester. Many websites associate Fox with Boston, but he assuredly grew up here.
“People liked him. He was always sort of a little weird, but not in a bad way,” said Riley Larkins, 27, a Massachusetts firmware and robotics engineer who was a year behind Fox at Central High School.
“He’s very good at everything he’s done, and he doesn’t want to be constrained by what other people think is right,” said Larkins, who lost touch with Fox after college.
“He was just a kind of presence because he was so creative. I guess that’s a way of saying odd,” said Ed Doyle, the band teacher at Central High School who first ran into Fox at Hillside Middle School.
Usually at this point in an article, I bring in the subject, who will introduce himself with a profound thought that captures his genius. That’s not going to happen here.
Fox won’t speak to me, said his mother, Barbara Fox. She asked that I not disclose the city where her son lives. As for a photo, I had to settle for his yearbook picture.
Fox and his three brothers are the sons of Robert and Barbara Fox. He is a financial planner who plays the guitar that I occasionally hear while walking by the family home.
She is a retired paraprofessional in Manchester schools. The four brothers went through Manchester schools, and Toby, whose given name is Robert, was the third of the four.
Teachers said they knew what to expect by the time Toby landed in their class.
“They’re all very brilliant,” said retired Central English teacher Selma Naccach-Hoff.
“Toby was a really funny kid, not afraid to express himself and come up with a different take on something.”
He also ran cross country at Central, played trumpet in band and participated in the Maskers theater group.
He went on to Northeastern University. Doyle remembers taking a class on a field trip to Boston and running into Fox, who joined the field trip on the Duck Tour.
“People liked him. He was always sort of a little weird, but not in a bad way,” said Riley Larkins, 27, a Massachusetts firmware and robotics engineer who was a year behind Fox at Central High School.
“He’s very good at everything he’s done, and he doesn’t want to be constrained by what other people think is right,” said Larkins, who lost touch with Fox after college.
“He was just a kind of presence because he was so creative. I guess that’s a way of saying odd,” said Ed Doyle, the band teacher at Central High School who first ran into Fox at Hillside Middle School.
Usually at this point in an article, I bring in the subject, who will introduce himself with a profound thought that captures his genius. That’s not going to happen here.
Fox won’t speak to me, said his mother, Barbara Fox. She asked that I not disclose the city where her son lives. As for a photo, I had to settle for his yearbook picture.
Fox and his three brothers are the sons of Robert and Barbara Fox. He is a financial planner who plays the guitar that I occasionally hear while walking by the family home.
She is a retired paraprofessional in Manchester schools. The four brothers went through Manchester schools, and Toby, whose given name is Robert, was the third of the four.
Teachers said they knew what to expect by the time Toby landed in their class.
“They’re all very brilliant,” said retired Central English teacher Selma Naccach-Hoff.
“Toby was a really funny kid, not afraid to express himself and come up with a different take on something.”
He also ran cross country at Central, played trumpet in band and participated in the Maskers theater group.
He went on to Northeastern University. Doyle remembers taking a class on a field trip to Boston and running into Fox, who joined the field trip on the Duck Tour.
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