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, 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).
COXE, JOHN; b. ; adm. ; KS 26 Jun 1549 (Acts of Chapter).
COXE, RICHARD HIPPISLEY, son of John Hippisley Coxe, Stoneaston, Somerset, and Mary, dau. of Stephen Northleigh MP, Peamore, Devon; b. 22 Sep 1742; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1754; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1759, matr. 19 Jun 1759, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1760 - 2 Jul 1763, res.; BA 1763; MP Somerset 1768-84; Col., Somerset Militia 24 Oct 1778, with rank Col. in Army 2 Jul 1779; d. unm. 26 Aug 1786.
COXETER, CHARLES, son of Thomas Coxeter, London; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1739 (Hawkins'); KS 1743; buried Bampton, Oxfordshire 26 Feb 1746. [mother perhaps Elizabeth White (IGI)]
COXETER, RICHMOND; b. ; adm. ; KS 1682. [Perhaps = Richard Coxeter, son of Richard Coxeter, Bampton, Oxfordshire, adm. Middle Temple 25 Jan 1685/6, called to bar 30 Jun 1704] [note Richard Coxeter, Bampton, Oxfordshire, will proved PCC 28 Apr 1741]
Cozens, Frederick Cyril, son of Frederick Theophilus Cozens, of Walsall, Staffs, by Minnie Gertrude, daughter of Alfred Sydney Smith, of Walsall; b. July 4, 1892; adm. April 30, 1908 (A); left July 1911; Emman. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1911; B.A. 1919; M.A., M.B., and B. Ch. 1925; Sub-Lieut. R. N. V. R. March 31, 1918; served as a Surgeon on H. M. S. Sloop Snapdragon during the war in the Mediterranean; St. Bartholomew's Hospital; M.R.C.S. (Eng.) and L.R.C.P. (Lond.) 1921; practised at Herne Bay, Kent; m. Nov. 9, 1920, Jessie McLean, youngest daughter of William Stewart, of Glasgow.
Cozens, Leslie, brother of Frederick Cyril Cozens (q.v.); b. Sept. 20, 1893; adm. April 30, 1908 (A); left July 1911; entered his father's business of tanner and currier at Walsall; 2nd Lieut. 5th Batt. South Staffs Regt. May 2, 1912; Lieut. March 1, 1914; Capt. May 19, 1915; went out to the western front March 3, 1915; d. Oct. 14, 1915, from wounds received in action at the Hohenzollern Redoubt the previous day; unm.
Cozens-Brooke, John Gilbert Somerset, only son of Ernest Brooke Cozens-Brooke, of Earl's Court, London, by Mabel Emily Florence, daughter of Capt. John William Clayton, of Marylebone; b. Nov. 26, 1893; adm. Jan. 16, 1908 (R); left July 1910; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. (Spec. Res.) Royal Scots Fusiliers April 1, 1912; Lieut. Aug. 15, 1914, attached 1st Batt. on taking out draft from depot to the western front in Sept. 1914; killed whilst scouting near Lille Oct. 18, 1914.