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COWPER, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Cowper, Clerk of the Parliaments, and Jane, dau. of John Budget, Chelsea, Middlesex; grandson of Spencer Cowper (b. 1669, qv); b.; adm. (aged 8) Apr 1730; left 1737; Worcester Coll. Oxford, matr. 1 Mar 1738/9; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 22 Apr 1740; of Hertingfordbury, Herts.; MP Hertford from 1768; DL Hertfordshire 1745, JP Hertfordshire; Maj., Hertfordshire Militia; m. 5 Aug 1749 his cousin Maria Frances Cecilia, sister of Martin Madan (qv); d. 27 [or 28 ?] Aug 1769.

COX, ---; b.; adm. Jun or Jul 1716; in under school list 1717; perhaps a chorister.

COX, ---; b.; adm.; described by Sir George Jackson (qv), who met him in Berlin in 1806, as “the Rev. Mr. Cox, an Old Westminster”; appears to have spent a great part of his life on the Continent, and to have been the “author of various tours more amusing than veracious” (Lady Jackson, ed., Diaries and Letters of Sir George Jackson, KCH, I, 411-2).

COX, ---; b.; in school list 1729.

COX, ---; b.; in school list 1733.

COX, ---; b.; at school 9 May 1789; perhaps at school 1795.

COX, ---, son of --- Cox (qv, above); b.; adm.; at school under Vincent; described by Sir George Jackson (qv) as “a frequenter of Dean’s Yard at the same time as myself” (Lady Jackson, ed., ibid. ).

COX, CHARLES HENRY, son of Richard Cox, Oxford, and Mary ---; b. 16 Nov 1797; adm. Mich. 1810; KS (aged 14) 1812; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1816, matr. 25 May 1816, Westminster Student; BA 1820; MA 1822; ordained; Vicar of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford, 7 Nov 1823; Sub-Librarian, Bodleian Library, Oxford 1826-8; Perpetual Curate, Benson, Oxfordshire 28 May 1828; Perpetual Curate, North and South Littleton, Worcs., 11 Dec 1833-45; Rector of Oulton, Suffolk, from 1845; m. 31 Jan 1837 Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Rev. Giles Haworth Peel, Vicar of Ince, Cheshire; d. 1 Oct 1850.

Cox, Edward Henry, brother of William Spiller Cox (q.v.); b. May 9, 1874; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 16, 1886; Mure scholar 1891; Capt. of the School 1892; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1893, matric. Oct. 1893; B.A. 1897; M.A. 1900; Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, 1897; ordained 1898; Curate of All Saints, Marylebone, 1898-1900; asst. tutor London Coll. of Divinity 1900-2; Vice-Principal of St. Aidan's Coll., Birkenhead 1902-4; gave up pastoral for social work owing to ill-health, and was for twenty years secretary of the Bermondsey branch of the Charity Organization Society; accidentally drowned at Eastbourne, May 20, 1928.