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)]
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.
COXE, JOHN; b. ; adm. ; KS 26 Jun 1549 (Acts of Chapter).
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, 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.
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.
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, 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, 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, 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.