COWPER, John Curtis, stage name of John Curtis (son of David Curtis of Manchester, painter). b. Port st. Piccadilly, Manchester 7 June 1827; first appeared at T.R. Manchester as Romeo; played star engagements with G. V. Brooke; leading tragedian at T.R. Liverpool; first appeared in London at Adelphi theatre, 17 Dec. 1862 as Duke Aranza in The Honeymoon; played leading parts at Drury Lane, Princess’s, Holborn and other London theatres. d. Barnes, Surrey 30 Jany. 1885. bur. Brompton cemetery, London 4 Feb.
COWPER, Ven. William. b. Whittington, Lancs. 28 Dec. 1780; C. of Rawdon near Leeds; senior assistant colonial chaplain 1 Jany. 1808; arrived in Sydney 18 Aug. 1809; Inc. of St. Philip’s ch. Sydney, Aug. 1809 to death, ch. was consecrated 25 Dec. 1810; organised the Benevolent 1818, Bible and Religious tract societies in N.S.W.; sec. of diocesan committees of the S.P.C.K. and S.P.G.; archdeacon of Cumberland and Camden 1848 to death; special commissary during Bishop Broughton’s absence in Europe 1852. d. Sydney 6 July 1858.
COX, David (only son of Joseph Cox of Birmingham, whitesmith, who d. about 1830). b. Heath mill lane, Deritend, Birmingham 29 April 1783; scene painter at Birmingham theatre 1800–4; came to London 1804; member of Soc. of painters in water colours 1813; drawing master in schools at Hereford 1814–26; exhibited 136 pictures at Pall Mall gallery 1844–54; made his first sketching visit to Bettws-y-coed then nearly unknown 1844, painted sign of the Royal Oak Inn there 1847 which he re-touched and varnished 1849; the greatest English water colour painter except Turner, his picture ‘The Hayfield’ fetched £2950 at the Quilter sale, April 1875, a price unparalleled for any water-colour; the best collections of his works were exhibited in Liverpool, Nov. 1875 numbering 448 pictures insured for about £100,000, and at Manchester Exhibition 1887; illustrated various works; author of The young artist’s companion 1825; A treatise on landscape painting 1841. d. Greenfield house, Harborne near Birmingham 7 June 1859. A biography of D. Cox by W. Hall (1881), portrait; Memoirs of D. Cox by N. N. Solly (1875); Sherer’s Gallery of British artists, i, 124–6; Redgrave’s Century of painters ii, 479–86 (1866); I.L.N. xxxv, 28, 42 (1859), portrait.
COX, David (only child of the preceding). b. Dulwich Common, summer of 1809; pupil of his father; a water-colour painter; exhibited at the R.A. 1827; associate of Soc. of painters in water-colours 1849. d. Chester house, Mount Ephraim road, Streatham, Surrey 4 Dec. 1885.
COX, Rev. Edward (son of Edward Cox, who d. 27 Dec. 1849 aged 73). b. about 1806; ed. at Old hall near Ware, Herts.; assistant priest at Chelsea; pres. of St. Edmund’s college at Old hall green, Aug. 1840 to Aug. 1851; missioner at Southampton, Aug. 1851 to death; a member of the Southwark chapter, vicar general; canon of Southwark; published The history of the church translated from the German of the Rev. J. J. von Döllinger 4 vols. 1840–2; A treatise on the church, translated from the German of the Rev. H. Klee 1847; The Our Father, or illustrations of the Lord’s prayer, from the German of J. E. Veith 1849. d. Southampton 9 Nov. 1856.
COX, Edward Townsend (son of Rev. Thomas Cox, chaplain of St. John’s, Deritend, Birmingham). b. Deritend 1769; surgeon at Stratford-on-Avon, surgeon to the infirmary at Birmingham 40 years; took an active part in founding and conducting Royal school of medicine; a most successful accoucheur; disliked travelling so much that he had never seen the sea. d. 26 Nov. 1863. W. S. Cox’s Annals of Queen’s college, iv, 149–54 (1873).
COX, Edward William (eld. son of Wm. Charles Cox of Taunton, manufacturer). b. Taunton 1809; barrister M.T. 5 May 1843; recorder of Helston and Falmouth, Feb. 1857 to June 1868; serjeant at law 29 May 1868; recorder of Portsmouth, June 1868; M. P. for Taunton 1868–1869 when unseated on petition; chairman of second court of Middlesex sessions, March 1870 to death; founded 22 Feb. 1875 Psychological society of Great Britain, pres. to his death, society was dissolved 31 Dec. 1879; established Law Times 8 April 1843; County courts chronicle and gazette of bankruptcy 1846; Exchange and Mart; The country, a journal of rural pursuits 1873; purchased from Benjamin Webster The Field, a gentleman’s newspaper devoted to sport; proprietor of The Queen, a lady’s newspaper; wrote or edited 1829, A Poem 1829; Reports of cases in criminal law 13 vols. 1846–78; The magistrate 1848; The advocate 1852; The law and practice of joint-stock companies 1855, 7 ed. 1870; Reports of all the cases relating to the law of joint-stock companies 4 vols. 1867–71; What am I? 1873; The mechanism of man 1876; A monograph of sleep and dreams 1878. d. Moat mount, Mill Hill, Middlesex 24 Nov. 1879. S. C. Hall’s Retrospect of a long life ii, 121–6 (1883); Hatton’s Journalistic London (1882) 208–11; I.L.N. 6 Dec. 1879 pp. 529, 530, portrait.
COX, Rev. Francis Augustus. b. Leighton Buzzard 7 March 1783; ed. at the Baptist college, Bristol and Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1802; ordained to ministry of Baptist congregation at Clipstone, Northamptonshire 4 April 1804; pastor of Baptist chapel, Hackney, London 3 Oct. 1811 to death; sec. to general body of dissenting ministers of the three denominations residing in and near London 3 years; a projector and founder of London University 1828, librarian short time; LLD. Glasgow 1824, D.D. Waterville, U.S. 1838; author of Female scripture biography 2 vols. 1817; History of the Baptist missionary society from 1792 to 1842, 2 vols. 1842, and many other works. d. King Edward’s road, South Hackney, London 5 Sep. 1853.
COX, Rev. George Valentine (son of Charles Cox of St. Martin’s, Oxford). b. Oxford 1786; ed. at Magdalen college sch. and New coll. Ox., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1808; master of New college school 1806 to June 1857; Esquire Bedel in law in Univ. of Ox. March 1806, in medicine and arts 29 Jany. 1815 to 1866, University coroner 1808; chaplain of New coll. 1812–20; author of Jeannette Isabelle 3 vols. 1837 a novel; The Prayer book epistles 1846; Recollections of Oxford 1868; translated from the German Dahlmann’s Life of Herodotus 1845, Neander’s Emperor Julian and his generation 1850, and Ullmann’s Gregory of Nazianzum 1851. d. Cowley lodge, Oxford 19 March 1875.
COX, Harry, stage name of Oliver James Bussley. b. Bristol 1841; first appeared in London at Prince of Wales’s theatre 15 April 1865 as Alessio in H. J. Byron’s burlesque La Sonnambula; acted at Strand theatre, April 1872 to day before his death. d. 3 Burfield st. Hammersmith 10 Jany. 1882. Era 14 Jany. 1882 p. 5, col. 2; Entr’ Acte 21 Jany. 1882, portrait.