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.

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.

COWPER, EDWARD, second son of James Cowper, Lincoln’s Inn and Essex; b.; adm.; KS 1676; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1680, aged 17, scholar 22 Apr 1681, matr. 1681; adm. Middle Temple 23 Jan 1682/3; buried 14 Jul 1688.

COWLEY, ABRAHAM, seventh and posthumous child of Thomas Cowley, St. Michael Le Querne, London, citizen and stationer; b. 1618; adm.; Min. Can. 1630; KS; author, Poetical Blossoms, dedicated to his schoolmaster Lambert Osbaldeston (qv) and published 1633; while in College he also wrote Love’s Riddle, a pastoral comedy, not published until 1638; failed to obtain election to either university 1636; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 21 Apr 1636, scholar (by dispensatory letter from King) 14 Jun 1637; his Latin play, Naufragium Joculare, was played before the University by members of Trinity Coll. 2 Feb 1638; BA 1639/40; MA 1643; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., from 30 Oct 1640; ejected by Parliamentary Visitors 1644 and went to Oxford, taking up residence in St. John’s Coll.; went abroad 1646; employed in diplomatic services by exiled Royalist court; returned to England as Royalist spy 1656; author, Miscellanies, 1656; MD Oxford 2 Dec 1657 (incorp. Cambridge 11 Jul 1664); withdrew to France, but returned at Restoration; applied for Mastership of Savoy 1661, unsuccessfully; one of original fellows of Royal Society; his works were first published in a collected form in 1668, when Several Discourses by way of Essays in Prose and Verse appeared for the first time; some hitherto unpublished Verses on the Happy Birth of the Duke of York are printed in the Elizabethan, v, 54-5, viii, 281; d. 28 Jul 1667, and buried in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

COWES, JAMES, son of Edmond Cowes, London; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1646, but was detained at school “through the exigence of warre” (Register of Visitors of the Univ. of Oxford 1647 to 1658, Camden Soc. Pub., 2nd ser., xxix, 268), matr. 29 Jan 1646/7, aged 17, Westminster Student; BA 1649; MA 1651 (incorp. Cambridge 1654); submitted to Parliamentary Visitors 28 May 1648; Chaplain, Christ Church 1650; subscribed the Engagement 1650/1; ordained; Rector of Luddenham, Kent, from 10 Apr 1661; Perpetual Curate, Oare, Kent, from 1668; d. 1674.

COWELLE, ---; b.; adm.; KS; left 1549 (Acts of Chapter).

COWELL, WILFRID HAMMERTON ANTROBUS, eldest son of Thomas William Cowell MRCS LSA, Piccadilly, London, and Frances Ann, dau. of Edmund Edward Antrobus FSA, Kensington Palace Gardens, London; b. 2 Oct 1856; adm. 12 Jun 1868 (James'); QS 1871; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1875, matr. 20 May 1875; BA 1879; MA 1882; Assistant Master, St. Edward’s School, Summertown, Oxford 1880, Tutor 1893, Second Master from 1925; edited The Roll of St. Edward’s School, 1890, 2nd ed. 1898, 3rd ed. 1907.