COX, RICHARD; b.; adm. 2 Jun 1777.
COX, SAMUEL COMPTON, only son of Samuel Cox (qv); bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 5 Jan 1758 (IGI); adm. 16 Oct 1765; KS (aged 13) 1769; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 1 Jun 1774, scholar 5 May 1775, matr. Mich. 1774; BA and 11th Wrangler 1778; members’ (second) prize for Middle Bachelors 1779; MA 1781; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1779, Major Fellow 4 Jul 1781; adm. Inner Temple 15 May 1775, Lincoln’s Inn 20 Jan 1781, called to bar 15 Jun 1781; a Commissioner of Bankrupts 1787-98 (occurs in annual lists 1788-98); Second Justice of Carmarthen 1 Aug 1798-1804; a Master in Chancery 18 Jul 1804 - Mar 1831; Lieut. -Col., Bloomsbury Inns of Court Associated Volunteers 9 Apr 1803; Treasurer, Foundling Hospital, from 1806; left Lincoln’s Inn 6 Nov 1806; FSA (by 1831); edited the fifth edition of Peere Williams’s Reports in Chancery, 1787; m. 23 Jun 1787 Anna, youngest dau. of Percival Pott FRCS, Princes Street, Hanover Square, London, Surgeon to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; d. 25 Mar 1839.
COX, SAMUEL, son of Samuel Cox, St. Giles, Cripplegate, London, and Judith Fox (IGI); bapt. St. Giles, Cripplegate 22 Aug 1718 (IGI); adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1733; KS 1734; left 1737; adm. Inner Temple 26 Oct 1737, called to bar 12 Jun 1741; adm. Staple Inn 25 Nov. 1755; lived in Chancery Lane; concerned with William Markham (adm. 1733, qv) and Thomas Salter, a Charterhouse master, in the erection of the houses on the Terrace and the other alterations in Dean’s Yard, for which they procured an Act of Parliament; godfather to Samuel Bentham (qv) (see Bentham’s Works, x, 26-7, 28-9); m. Mary --- (IGI); d. 15 Oct 1776.
COX, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1727; left 1728.
COX, THOMAS, son of Rev. James Cox, St. James’s, London, and Eleanor ---; b.; adm.; BB; KS (aged 13) 1763; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 1 Jun 1768, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1768 - 26 Mar 1777 (expiry year of grace as Vicar of Badby-cum-Newnham); BA 1772; MA 1775; ordained; Vicar of Badby-cum-Newnham, Northants., from 11 Mar 1776; FSA 1798 [check]; m. 2 Mar 1783 Jane, eldest dau. of Robert Clavering (adm. 1737, qv); d. 3 Feb 1816.
COX, THOMAS; b.; adm.; BB in 1711 (Chapter Muniments 33743).
COX, WALTER; b.; adm. (aged 14) Nov 1715.
COX, WILLIAM SPILLER, son of Edward Webster Cox, Secretary, Land Securities Co. , and chairman and man. dir. The Builder Ltd, and Julia Lamport, elder dau. of William Cook Spiller, Hampstead, Middlesex; b. 7 Sep 1870; adm. as exhibitioner (H) 31 May 1883; QS 12 Jun 1884; left Apr 1888; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 Oct 1889; Thanet exhibitioner 1889; BA 1893; MA 1896; Wycliffe Hall, Oxford 1893; ordained 1893; Curate, St. Mary Magdalen, Peckham, Surrey, 1893-6; a CMS missionary in Sierra Leone 1896; d. on his voyage home from West Africa 12 Jun 1897.
COXE, CHARLES, eldest son of John Coxe MP, barrister, Bencher Lincoln’s Inn, and Theodora, dau. of Thomas Eyre, Huntercombe, Burnham, Bucks.; bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 9 Jul 1722 (IGI); adm. (aged 11) Oct 1734; left 1738; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 Mar 1738/9; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 4 Jun 1739; of Kemble, Wilts. (now Gloucs. ); m. 1 Apr 1749 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Robert Westley, Alderman City of London.
COXE, HENRY OCTAVIUS, brother of Philip Smith Coxe (qv); b. 20 Sep 1811; adm. 15 Jan 1821; Worcester Coll. Oxford, matr. 19 Nov 1829; BA 1833; MA 1836; assistant, Dept. MSS, British Museum 1833-8; ordained deacon (London) 14 Jun 1835, priest (Gloucester) 6 Jun 1836; Sub-Librarian, Bodleian Library, Oxford 1838-60, Librarian from 6 Nov 1860; held various curacies in neighbourhood of Oxford; Select Preacher 1842; Chaplain, Corpus Christi Coll., Oxford 1845-74; hon. fellow, Worcester and Corpus Christi Colls., Oxford; Rector of Wytham, Oxfordshire 1868-80; Whitehall Preacher 1868; made archaeological tour in the Levant 1857; supervised the preparation and publication of the catalogue of the printed books in the Bodleian Library 1859-80; edited various historical manuscripts; m. 9 Apr 1839 Charlotte Esther, youngest dau. of Gen. Sir Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner GCH, Governor of Bermuda; d. 8 Jul 1881. DNB.