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.

COWELL, SIBERT FORREST ANTROBUS, brother of Wilfrid Hammerton Antrobus Cowell (qv); b. 24 Sep 1863; adm. (H) 15 Jun 1876; QS Jan 1879; left 1882; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 14 Oct 1882; BA 1886; MA 1911; Assistant Secretary, Royal College of Surgeons, 1888-1901, Secretary 1901-34; d. unm. 13 Jan 1949.

COWELL, JOHN JERMYN, son of John Welsford Cowell, Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, a clerk in Bank of England, and Frances Maberly (IGI); b. 30 Jan 1838; adm. 7 Jun 1850 (Rigaud's); QS 1852; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1856, adm. pens. 5 May 1856, scholar 1857, matr. Mich. 1856; BA 1860; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Apr 1860, called to bar 30 Apr 1864; Secretary, The Alpine Club; Cowell seems to have developed his fondness for climbing while at school, for he “climbed with another Westminster boy to the top of the Victoria Tower, which was then building, walked out to the end of a beam, projecting over London, and looked down” (Oscar Browning, Memoirs of Sixty Years, 39, 57, 58-61); d. 16 Dec 1867.

COURTENAY, WILLIAM, 10TH EARL OF DEVON, elder son of Henry Reginald Courtenay (adm. 1751, qv); b. 19 Jun 1777; adm. ; in school list Dec 1788; KS 1790; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1794, matr. 18 Jun 1794, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1794 - 15 Dec 1804, void by marriage; BA 1798; MA 1801; DCL 1837; patentee of the Subpoena Office in Court of Chancery 1784-1852, when office abolished; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 3 Dec 1793, Tancred Law Scholar, called to bar 11 Jun 1799; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (appears in annual lists 1801-17); Recorder of Exeter 1814; a Master in Chancery 30 Jul 1817 - 23 Mar 1826; MP Exeter 1812 - Jan 1826; Clerk Assistant, House of Lords 8 Feb 1826 - 26 May 1835; succ. cousin as 10th Earl of Devon 26 May 1835; High Steward, University of Oxford, from 1838; an Ecclesiastical Commissioner 21 Jan 1842 - Aug 1850; Busby Trustee 26 May 1826; m. 1st, 29 Nov 1804 Lady Harriet Leslie, dau. of Sir Lucas Pepys, Bart. , MD FRS FRCP, by the Countess of Rothes; m. 2nd, 30 Jan 1849 Elizabeth Ruth, dau. of Rev. John Middleton Scott, Ballygrannon, co. Wicklow; d. 19 Mar 1859.