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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.

COXE, HOLLED WALLACE HENRY, only son of Rev. Holled Coxe, Bangalore, India, Chaplain EICS Madras, and Mary Anne, dau. of Ven. Josiah Thomas, Archdeacon of Bath; nephew of Philip Smith Coxe (qv); b. 16 Oct 1820; adm. 13 Jan 1834 (Scott's); KS 1835; left 1839; Worcester Coll. Oxford, matr. 10 May 1839; appointed a clerk in Board of Control 1841, but became Cadet, EICS Bengal 1841; Ensign, 70th Bengal NI 21 Jun 1841; Lieut. 8 Apr 1850; Assist. Commissioner, Punjab 28 Feb 1856; Capt., 21 Jun 1856; Deputy Commissioner, Peshawar 6 Apr 1859; Maj. 21 Jun 1861; Lieut. -Col., 21 Jun 1867; Col. 21 Jun 1872; ret. 31 Dec 1874; Maj. -Gen., 23 Jan 1875; served in Gwalior campaign 1843 and in expedition against Mahsood Waziris 1860; m. 8 May 1855 Mary Louisa, eldest dau. of Rev. William Sibthorpe Cole, Rector of Ryther, Yorks.; d. 24 Jan 1898.

COXE, JOHN HIPPISLEY, brother of Richard Hippisley Coxe (qv); b. 2 Sep 1743; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 12) 1754; KS 1755; Capt. of the School 1759; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1760, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1760, scholar 17 Apr 1761; BA 1764; presumably the individual referred to as “Cox” and “Giovanni Hepuleii” on Grand Tour in Italy 1766, accompanying Benjamin Hyett (qv); adm. Lincoln’s Inn 4 May 1759; of Midsomer Norton, Somerset; buried 21 Jan 1782 (will proved PCC 12 May 1783).